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Prevalence of influenza a infection in the middle-east: a systematic review and meta-analysis
, Article Clinical Respiratory Journal ; Volume 12, Issue 5 , 2018 , Pages 1787-1801 ; 17526981 (ISSN) ; Monavari, H. R ; Mostafaei, S ; Hadifar, S ; Ghasemi, A ; Babaei, F ; Kavosi, H ; Tavakoli, A ; Javanmard, D ; Esghaei, M ; Khodabandehlou, N ; Sharif University of Technology
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2018
Abstract
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...