title: Community -and hospital laboratory-based surveillance for respiratory viruses.
abstract: Traditional surveillance for respiratory viruses relies on symptom detection and laboratory detection during medically attended encounters for acute respiratory infection/influenza-like illness (ARI/ILI). Ecological momentary reporting using text messages is a novel method for surveillance. This study compares respiratory viral activity detected through longitudinal community-based surveillance using text message responses for sample acquisition and testing to respiratory viral activity obtained from hospital laboratory data from the same community. We demonstrate a significant correlation between community- and hospital laboratory-based surveillance for most respiratory viruses, although the relative proportions of viruses detected in the community and hospital differed significantly.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zachariah
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.|New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Whittier
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Carrie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: LaRussa
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Elaine L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Celibell Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Vargas
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.|New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Saiman
authors.affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.|New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Stockwell
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology*; D060145:Text Messaging
keywords: Influenza; surveillance; viruses