TY - CHAP AU - Yasemin Budama‐Kilinc AU - Rabia Cakir‐Koc ED - Manal Mohammad Baddour Y1 - 2016-10-26 PY - 2016 T1 - Influenza Diagnosis with a Specific Emphasis on the M2e Antigen as a Diagnostic Tool N2 - The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 3-5 million cases of severe influenza worldwide will result in 250,000-500,000 deaths annually. Collectively, data are shared via the WHO's Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS), which includes 143 institutions in 113 WHO member states, to help alert the emergence of antigenic variants or the beginning of a pandemic. In April 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cited the first incidence of human-to-human transmission of pandemic H1N1, also referred to as swine influenza A, which was antigenically distinct from other circulating human H1N1. As the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century, pandemic H1N1 was not included in the annual trivalent vaccine regimen, leaving a large majority of the population unprotected from the newly emerging pathogen. BT - Steps Forwards in Diagnosing and Controlling Influenza SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64786 DO - 10.5772/64786 SN - 978-953-51-2733-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -