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SUBMITTER: Cooper BS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4445392 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cooper Ben S BS Kotirum Surachai S Kulpeng Wantanee W Praditsitthikorn Naiyana N Chittaganpitch Malinee M Limmathurotsakul Direk D Day Nicholas P J NP Coker Richard R Teerawattananon Yot Y Meeyai Aronrag A
American journal of epidemiology 20150420 11
Influenza epidemiology differs substantially in tropical and temperate zones, but estimates of seasonal influenza mortality in developing countries in the tropics are lacking. We aimed to quantify mortality due to seasonal influenza in Thailand, a tropical middle-income country. Time series of polymerase chain reaction-confirmed influenza infections between 2005 and 2009 were constructed from a sentinel surveillance network. These were combined with influenza-like illness data to derive measures ...[more]