Cent Eur J Public Health 2011, 19(1):20-25 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3593

Changes in Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections Including Influenza in Slovak Republic during 1993-2008

Jana Seligová1, Andrea Čulmanová2, Zuzana Krištufková3, Lýdia Čisláková2, Henrieta Hudečková4
1 Regional Public Health Authority in Košice, Slovak Republic
2 Faculty of Medicine UPJŠ in Košice, Slovak Republic
3 Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
4 Faculty of Medicine JLF in Martin, Slovak Republic

The authors evaluated surveillance of acute respiratory infections (ARI), influenza and influenza-like illnesses (ILI) in the Slovak Republic (SR). They analyze morbidity, age-specific morbidity, complications, mortality, number of influenza viruses isolations and vaccination coverage rates in the SR in the years 1993-2008. They focus mainly on the analysis during the epidemic. Most epidemics have been caused by influenza virus A subtype H3N2. The age group mostly affected by morbidity during the year were children at the age of 0-5, while during the epidemic, the highest morbidity was recorded among school children at the age of 6-14. A complicated clinical course of the disease was reported in 1,422,836 patients (5.1%). Since the 2002/2003 influenza season, the sentinel physicians have participated in taking biological material, which ensures monitoring of influenza viruses circulating in the SR. As of the 2006/2007 season, the ARI/ILI have been reported separately in the SR in accordance with the monitoring requirements set by the European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS) project, and the calculation of morbidity is done from the number of persons, who are in care of the reporting physicians: Vaccination coverage in SR is still very low in comparison with other European Union (EU) countries.

Keywords: surveillance, acute respiratory infections, influenza, influenza virus, vaccination

Received: October 27, 2009; Revised: November 8, 2010; Accepted: November 8, 2010; Published: March 1, 2011  Show citation

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Seligová J, Čulmanová A, Krištufková Z, Čisláková L, Hudečková H. Changes in Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections Including Influenza in Slovak Republic during 1993-2008. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2011;19(1):20-25. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3593. PubMed PMID: 21526651.
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