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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Alonso WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4664865 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20151201
Both the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere annual WHO influenza vaccine recommendations are designed to ensure vaccine delivery before the winter-time peak of viral circulation in each hemisphere. However, influenza seasonal patterns are highly diverse in tropical countries and may be out of phase with the WHO recommendations for their respective hemisphere. We modelled the peak timing of influenza activity for 125 countries using laboratory-based surveillance data from the WHO's FLUNET datab ...[more]