Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Etiological and epidemiological features of acute respiratory infections in China

  • Zhong-Jie Li,
  • Hai-Yang Zhang,
  • Li-Li Ren,
  • Qing-Bin Lu,
  • Xiang Ren,
  • Cui-Hong Zhang,
  • Yi-Fei Wang,
  • Sheng-Hong Lin,
  • Xiao-Ai Zhang,
  • Jun Li,
  • Shi-Wen Zhao,
  • Zhi-Gang Yi,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Zuo-Sen Yang,
  • Lei Meng,
  • Xin-Hua Wang,
  • Ying-Le Liu,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Ai-Li Cui,
  • Sheng-Jie Lai,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Yang Yuan,
  • Lu-Sha Shi,
  • Meng-Yang Liu,
  • Yu-Liang Zhu,
  • An-Ran Zhang,
  • Zhi-Jie Zhang,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Michael P. Ward,
  • Lu-Zhao Feng,
  • Huai-Qi Jing,
  • Liu-Yu Huang,
  • Wen-Bo Xu,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Jian-Guo Wu,
  • Zheng-Hong Yuan,
  • Meng-Feng Li,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Li-Ping Wang,
  • Li-Qun Fang,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Simon I. Hay,
  • George F. Gao,
  • Wei-Zhong Yang,
  • The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Etiology of Respiratory Infection Surveillance Study Team

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25120-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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China operates a national surveillance program for acute respiratory infections and sampled over 200,000 patients between 2009–2019. Here, the authors present results from this program and describe patterns by age, pathogen type, presence of pneumonia, and season.