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cord-263464-fdosch11	Nuvey, Francis Sena	Evaluation of the sentinel surveillance system for influenza-like illnesses in the Greater Accra region, Ghana, 2018	2019-03-14		.txt	text/plain	4094	227	47	We evaluated the ILI surveillance system in the Greater Accra region, Ghana, to assess the system's attributes and its performance on set objectives. In collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Defense (MOD), it currently operates sentinel surveillance for influenza in 27 sites across all regions in Ghana with support from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (NAMRU-3), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and WHO [8] . We found that data on patients meeting the ILI case definition (S2 Table) from the sentinel sites are collected together with nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal specimen. Our study provides evidence, that the ILI sentinel surveillance system in the Greater Accra Region (GAR), Ghana, is only partially meeting its objectives because it did not have thresholds for alerting the health system and does not perform antiviral resistance testing.	./cache/cord-263464-fdosch11.txt	./txt/cord-263464-fdosch11.txt