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Travel Med Infect Dis. 2013 Apr 6. pii: S1477-8939(13)00022-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2013.03.003. [Epub ahead of print]
Relative risk for influenza like illness in French Hajj pilgrims compared to non-Hajj attending controls during the 2009 influenza pandemic.
Gautret P, Parola P, Brouqui P.
Source
IHU M?diterran?e Infection, APHM Public Hospitals of Marseille, 13005 Marseille, France; Aix Marseille Universit?, Unit? de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsioses and Other Arthropod Borne Bacterial Diseases, Facult? de M?decine, 27 bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. Electronic address: philippe.gautret@club-internet.fr.
Abstract
The incidence of influenza like illness was evaluated in a cohort of 273 French pilgrims participating to the Hajj 2009 and compared to non-Hajj attending control data from Sentinel System, a nationwide network of French general practitioners who report, in real time, the number of medical visits for influenza like illness. Cases of influenza like illness in pilgrims were observed during weeks 45-50, 2009, with a mean incidence of 1211 cases per 100,000 pilgrims, compared to 520 in controls during the same period. The highest incidence in pilgrims was observed during week 48, corresponding to the Hajj ritual dates.
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PMID:
23566855
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23566855
Relative risk for influenza like illness in French Hajj pilgrims compared to non-Hajj attending controls during the 2009 influenza pandemic.
Gautret P, Parola P, Brouqui P.
Source
IHU M?diterran?e Infection, APHM Public Hospitals of Marseille, 13005 Marseille, France; Aix Marseille Universit?, Unit? de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsioses and Other Arthropod Borne Bacterial Diseases, Facult? de M?decine, 27 bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. Electronic address: philippe.gautret@club-internet.fr.
Abstract
The incidence of influenza like illness was evaluated in a cohort of 273 French pilgrims participating to the Hajj 2009 and compared to non-Hajj attending control data from Sentinel System, a nationwide network of French general practitioners who report, in real time, the number of medical visits for influenza like illness. Cases of influenza like illness in pilgrims were observed during weeks 45-50, 2009, with a mean incidence of 1211 cases per 100,000 pilgrims, compared to 520 in controls during the same period. The highest incidence in pilgrims was observed during week 48, corresponding to the Hajj ritual dates.
Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PMID:
23566855
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23566855