TY - GEN AU - Melidou, Angeliki AU - Pereyaslov, Dmitriy AU - Hungnes, Olav AU - Prosenc, Katarina AU - Alm, Erik AU - Adlhoch, Cornelia AU - Fielding, James AU - Sneiderman, Miriam AU - Martinuka, Oksana AU - Celentano, Lucia Pastore AU - Pebody, Richard AU - WHO European Region AU - Pozo Sanchez, Francisco AU - Casas Flecha, Inmaculada AU - European Influenza Surveillance Network (EISN) PY - 2020 DO - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.46.2001822 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/14935 AB - The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the 2019/20 WHO European Region influenza surveillance. Compared with previous 4-year averages, antigenic and genetic characterisations decreased by 17% (3,140 vs 2,601) and 24% (4,474 vs 3,403). Of subtyped... LA - eng PB - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) KW - COVID-19 KW - Europe KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - Influenza virus KW - Pandemic KW - Surveillance KW - Virus characterization KW - Epidemiological Monitoring KW - Antigens, Viral KW - Betacoronavirus KW - COVID-19 KW - Coronavirus Infections KW - Disease Notification KW - Humans KW - Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype KW - Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype KW - Influenza A virus KW - Influenza B virus KW - Influenza, Human KW - Pandemics KW - Pneumonia, Viral KW - Population Surveillance KW - RNA, Viral KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - Sequence Analysis, DNA TI - Virological surveillance of influenza viruses in the WHO European Region in 2019/20 - impact of the COVID-19 pandemic TY - research article ER -