Avian influenza vaccination of poultry and passive case reporting, Egypt
- Vergne, Timothée
- Grosbois, Vladimir
- Jobre, Yilma
- Saad, Ahmed
- El Nabi, Amira Abd
- Galal, Saber
- Kalifa, Mohamed
- El Kader, Soheir Abd
- Dauphin, Gwenaelle
- Roger, François
- Lubroth, Juan
- Peyre, Marie-Isabelle
Publication date
January 2012
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ISSN
1080-6040 Citation count (estimate)
10Abstract
We investigated the infl uence of a mass poultry vaccination campaign on passive surveillance of highly pathogenic avian infl uenza subtype (H5N1) outbreaks among poultry in Egypt. Passive reporting dropped during the campaign, although probability of infection remained unchanged. Future poultry vaccination campaigns should consider this negative impact on reporting for adapting surveillance strategies. (Résumé d'auteur
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