Estimation of the National Disease Burden of Influenza-Associated Severe Acute Respiratory Illness in Kenya and Guatemala: A Novel Methodology

BACKGROUND: Knowing the national disease burden of severe influenza in low-income countries can inform policy decisions around influenza treatment and prevention. We present a novel methodology using locally generated data for estimating this burden. METHODS AND FINDINGS: This method begins with cal...

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Autores principales: Fuller, James A., Summers, Aimee, Katz, Mark A., Lindblade, Kim A., Njuguna, Henry, Arvelo, Wences, Khagayi, Sammy, Emukule, Gideon, Linares-Perez, Nivaldo, McCracken, John, Nokes, D. James, Ngama, Mwanajuma, Kazungu, Sidi, Mott, Joshua A., Olsen, Sonja J., Widdowson, Marc-Alain, Feikin, Daniel R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23573177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056882

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