Establishing severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) surveillance in a sentinel hospital, Ireland, 2021 to 2022

ConclusionWe successfully established SARI surveillance as part of E-SARI-NET. Expansion to additional sentinel sites is planned following formal evaluation of the existing system. SARI surveillance requires multidisciplinary collaboration, automated data collection where possible, and dedicated personnel resources, including for specimen management.

Source: Eurosurveillance - June 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Melissa Brady, Roisin Duffy, Lisa Domegan, Abigail Salmon, Binita Maharjan, Cathal O'Broin, Charlene Bennett, James Christle, Jeff Connell, Laura Feeney, Nadra Nurdin, Patrick Mallon, Peter Doran, Rosa McNamara, Sarah O'Grady, Sinead McDermott, Naomi Pett Source Type: research