Review on Severe Acute Respiratory Infection ...

Review on Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI)

Author Name : Divyanka Nandan, Rishikesh Bachhav

ABSTRACT

One of the biggest concerns of the modern era is the effect of communicable diseases on the global population and ensuring that proper surveillance is practiced in order to keep communicable diseases at low. Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) tends to be fastly progressive respiratory illnesses due to pathogens that have the capacity for large scale epidemics. These article is based on Cause/Epidemiology, Incubation Period, Transmission, Infection Prevention and Control Practices and drugs used in treatment of Severe acute respiratory infection.The objective of this study is to mark out characteristics of SARI patients and to explore risk factors for a severe outcome in influenza-positive SARI patients.

Keywords: SARI, Epidemiology, IP&C practices, risk factors, SARI surveillance.