Etiologies of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and misdiagnosis of influenza in Indonesia, 2013-2016.
Abu Tholib AmanTri WibawaHerman KosasihRizka Humardewayanti AsdieIda SafitriUmi Solekhah IntansariYuli MawartiPratiwi SudarmonoMansyur ArifDwiyanti PuspitasariBachti AlisjahbanaKetut Tuti Merati ParwatiMuhammad Hussein GasemDewi LokidaNurhayati LukmanTeguh Sarry HartonoYan MardianC Jason LiangSophia SiddiquiMuhammad KaryanaChuen-Yen LauPublished in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2020)
Influenza was misdiagnosed among all patients presenting with SARI to Indonesian tertiary hospitals in the AFIRE study. Diagnostic approaches and empiric management should be guided by known epidemiology. Public health strategies to address the high burden of influenza should include broad implementation of SARI screening, vaccination programs, clinician education and awareness campaigns, improved diagnostic capacity, and support for effective point-of-care tests.