Authors
Mohsen Moghoofei, Seyed Hamidreza Monavari, Shayan Mostafaei, Shima Hadifar, Amir Ghasemi, Farhad Babaei, Hoda Kavosi, Ahmad Tavakoli, Davod Javanmard, Maryam Esghaei, Nilofar Khodabandehlou
Publication date
2018/5
Source
The clinical respiratory journal
Volume
12
Issue
5
Pages
1787-1801
Description
Objective
This systematic review and meta‐analysis was performed to determine the prevalence rate of influenza virus from different parts of Middle East region, and present an overall relative frequency (RF) for this region.
Methods
The authors performed a systematic literature review from several reliable databases such as PubMed, ISI Web of Science and Scopus during 2000–2016. Furthermore, the keywords of this research were ‘Influenza’, ‘Subtype’, ‘Seroprevalence’, ‘Incidence’, ‘Seroepidemiology’, ‘H1N1’, ‘H3N2’, ‘H5N1’, ‘H9N2’, ‘Middle‐East’ and ‘Meta‐analysis’. The reported data were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Results
The authors selected 71 studies out of 1147 for the present review. The overall estimation of the prevalence of influenza virus was 10.2% [95% confidence interval (CI): 10.1%–10.3%]. However, based on our records, the evident heterogeneity of influenza …
Scholar articles
M Moghoofei, SH Monavari, S Mostafaei, S Hadifar… - The clinical respiratory journal, 2018