The performance of different case definitions for severe influenza surveillance among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children aged <5 years in South Africa, 2011-2015.

The performance of different case definitions for severe influenza surveillance among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected children aged <5 years in South Africa, 2011-2015.

In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new severe influenza surveillance case definition, which has not been evaluated in a high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence setting. Our study aimed to assess the performance of this proposed case definition in identifying influenza...

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Main Authors: Hetani Ngobeni, Stefano Tempia, Adam L Cohen, Sibongile Walaza, Lazarus Kuonza, Alfred Musekiwa, Anne von Gottberg, Orienka Hellferscee, Nicole Wolter, Florette K Treurnicht, Jocelyn Moyes, Fathima Naby, Omphile Mekgoe, Cheryl Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222294

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