Estimation of the national disease burden of influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness in Kenya and Guatemala: a novel methodology.

Estimation of the national disease burden of influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness in Kenya and Guatemala: a novel methodology.

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.This method begins with calculating the hospitalized severe ac...

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Main Authors: James A Fuller, Aimee Summers, Mark A Katz, Kim A Lindblade, Henry Njuguna, Wences Arvelo, Sammy Khagayi, Gideon Emukule, Nivaldo Linares-Perez, John McCracken, D James Nokes, Mwanajuma Ngama, Sidi Kazungu, Joshua A Mott, Sonja J Olsen, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Daniel R Feikin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3584100?pdf=render

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