id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-302529-43pd2qsp El Moussi, Awatef Virological Surveillance of Influenza Viruses during the 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2010–11 Seasons in Tunisia 2013-09-19 .txt text/plain 3251 163 45 METHOD: We describe in this report the findings of laboratory-based surveillance of human cases of influenza virus and other respiratory viruses' infection during three seasons in Tunisia. A subset of sentinel primary care physicians participating in virological surveillance schemes in the community submits respiratory samples for virological testing from patients presenting in primary health care with an ILI, as well as all regional emergency centres and hospitals that take on surveillance of influenza from community, hospitalized and fatal cases. Phylogenetic analysis of the HA1 nucleotid sequence of 23 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses from mild, severe (patients hospitalized with severe pneumonia and severe acute respiratory syndrome) and fatal cases, shows that all viruses characterised in Tunisia during season 2009-2010 were outside the seven genetic groups described in the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) report [19] . ./cache/cord-302529-43pd2qsp.txt ./txt/cord-302529-43pd2qsp.txt