Resurgence of influenza A infections in children after the relaxation of COVID-19-related social distancing measures and normalization of international travel in Qatar-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Resurgence of influenza A infections in children after the relaxation of COVID-19-related social distancing measures and normalization of international travel in Qatar

Published:2022-09-23 Issue:8 Volume:29 Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
language:en
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Author:

Pérez-López Andrés¹²^ORCID,Al Mana Hassan³,Iqbal Muhammad¹,Suleiman Mohammed¹,Hasan Mohammad Rubayet⁴⁵,Tang Patrick¹²

Affiliation:

1. Division of Microbiology, Sidra Medicine , Doha , Qatar

2. Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar , Doha , Qatar

3. Biomedical Research Centre, Microbiology Department, Qatar University , Doha Qatar

4. Medical Scientific Department, LifeLabs , Toronto , Canada

5. Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University , Hamilton , Canada

Abstract

We report an off-season surge of influenza A infections among children in Qatar coinciding with the relaxation of COVID-19 related social restrictions and the normalization of international travel. The unusual surge may be related to population waning immunity after a prolonged reduced influenza A activity in Qatar.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taac107/46525738/taac107.pdf

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