title: [Global influenza surveillance].
abstract: Global influenza surveillance is run by WHO Global Influenza Programme in collaboration with WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network. Network partners collect specimens in their countries, perform primary virus isolation and preliminary antigenic characterization. They ship newly isolated strains to WHO Collaboration Centers for high level antigenic and genetic analysis, the result of which forms the basis for WHO recommendations on the composition of influenza vaccine for the Northern and Southern Hemisphere each year. The WHO Influenza Surveillance Network serves also as a global alert mechanism for the emergence of influenza viruses with pandemic potential.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
authors.forename: Kiyosu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D014944:World Health Organization