Surveillance of influenza and other acute respiratory infections in paediatric intensive care units in Bavaria, Germany ANDREA STRENG 1, JASMIN BENSER 1, CHRISTINE SAAM 1 , CHRISTIANE PRIFERT 2, BENEDIKT WEISSBRICH 2, JOHANNES LIESE 1, and the ‘Influenza Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Study Group’ * 1 Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital of Würzburg, Germany Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Germany

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Background • In Germany, epidemiological data on severe influenza-

Aims

associated infections (and on other respiratory viruses) in children are limited

1. To determine the frequency of laboratory-confirmed severe influenza cases and influenza-associated fatalities in children