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List of works by Marc-Alain Widdowson

2009 Pandemic influenza A virus subtype H1N1 vaccination in Africa--successes and challenges

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A European outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium definitive phage type 204b in 2000.

scientific article published in August 2003

A chest radiograph scoring system in patients with severe acute respiratory infection: a validation study

scientific article published on 29 December 2015

A decade of the Asian Rotavirus Surveillance Network: Achievements and future directions

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A population-based estimate of the economic burden of influenza in Peru, 2009-2010.

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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating the safety of early oseltamivir treatment among children 0-9 years of age hospitalized with influenza in El Salvador and Panama

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

An analysis of 332 fatalities infected with pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) in Argentina

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An epidemiological study of Taenia solium cysticercosis in a rural population in the Bolivian Chaco.

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An outbreak of diarrhea in a neonatal medium care unit caused by a novel strain of rotavirus: investigation using both epidemiologic and microbiological methods

scientific article published in 2002

Are noroviruses emerging?

scientific article published in May 2005

Associations between Meteorological Parameters and Influenza Activity in Berlin (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Castile and León (Spain) and Israeli Districts

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Associations between seasonal influenza and meteorological parameters in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Automated, laboratory-based system using the Internet for disease outbreak detection, the Netherlands

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Bayesian estimation of hepatitis E virus seroprevalence for populations with different exposure levels to swine in The Netherlands

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Burden and Epidemiology of Rotavirus Diarrhea in Selected African Countries: Preliminary Results from the African Rotavirus Surveillance Network

scientific article published on September 2010

Burden of Influenza and Influenza-associated Pneumonia in the First Year of Life in a Prospective Cohort Study in Managua, Nicaragua

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Burden of Influenza in 4 Ecologically Distinct Regions of Peru: Household Active Surveillance of a Community Cohort, 2009-2015.

scientific article published on 9 August 2017

Burden of influenza-associated deaths in the Americas, 2002-2008

scientific article published in August 2015

Burden of rotavirus disease among children visiting pediatric emergency departments in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Oakland, California, in 1999-2000.

scientific article published in November 2008

Burden of severe rotavirus diarrhea in indonesia

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Challenges to global pandemic mortality estimation.

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Characteristics of hospitalized cases with influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 infection during first winter season of post-pandemic in China

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Cholera Outbreak in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya - November 2015-June 2016

scholarly article by Qabale Golicha et al published 31 August 2018 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Clinical differences between influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 & influenza B infections identified through active community surveillance in North India.

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Cluster of cases of acute hepatitis associated with hepatitis E virus infection acquired in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 13 December 2002

Clusters of Human Infections With Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in China, March 2013 to June 2015.

scientific article published on September 2017

Comparison of Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling With Conventional Autopsy to Detect Pulmonary Pathology Among Respiratory Deaths in a Resource-Limited Setting

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Coprophagic complications

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Cost-effectiveness and potential impact of rotavirus vaccination in the United States

article by Marc-Alain Widdowson et al published April 2007 in Pediatrics

Critical issues in implementing a national integrated all-vaccine preventable disease surveillance system

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Delayed 2009 pandemic influenza a virus subtype H1N1 circulation in West Africa, May 2009-April 2010

scientific article published in December 2012

Demographic shift of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 during and after pandemic, rural India

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Demographic, socio-economic and geographic determinants of seasonal influenza vaccine uptake in rural western Kenya, 2011.

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Design and initiation of a study to assess the direct and indirect effects of influenza vaccine given to children in rural India

scientific article published on 16 June 2012

Detecting Spread of Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Beyond China

scientific article published on May 2015

Detection of serum antibodies to bovine norovirus in veterinarians and the general population in the Netherlands

scholarly article by Marc-Alain Widdowson published in January 2005

Determination of Predominance of Influenza Virus Strains in the Americas

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Determining the Cause of Death Among Children Hospitalized With Respiratory Illness in Kenya: Protocol for Pediatric Respiratory Etiology Surveillance Study (PRESS)

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Drivers and barriers of vaccine acceptance among pregnant women in Kenya

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Early detection of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Bangladesh

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Economic burden of influenza-associated hospitalizations and outpatient visits in Bangladesh during 2010

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Effect of winter school breaks on influenza-like illness, Argentina, 2005-2008

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Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination of children in Senegal during a year of vaccine mismatch: a cluster-randomized trial

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Efficacy of a Russian-backbone live attenuated influenza vaccine among children in Senegal: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Enhanced surveillance of norovirus outbreaks of gastroenteritis in Georgia

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Epidemiological and genetic characteristics of norovirus outbreaks in long-term care facilities, 2003-2006.

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

Epidemiology of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness and Risk Factors for Influenza Infection and Clinical Severity among Adults in Malawi, 2011-2013

scientific article published in September 2018

Epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children - preliminary results of a cohort in a rural north Indian community

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Epidemiology of influenza in West Africa after the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, 2010-2012.

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Epidemiology of rotavirus gastroenteritis among children <5 years of age in Morocco during 1 year of sentinel hospital surveillance, June 2006-May 2007.

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Epidemiology of urban canine rabies, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1972-1997.

scientific article published on May 2002

Epidemiology of viral acute lower respiratory infections in a community-based cohort of rural north Indian children

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling study

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Estimated incidence of influenza-virus-associated severe pneumonia in children in El Salvador, 2008-2010.

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Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programs in the WHO European Region, December 2020 to March 2023

Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Estimating influenza and respiratory syncytial virus-associated mortality in Western Kenya using health and demographic surveillance system data, 2007-2013

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

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Foodborne illness acquired in the United States--major pathogens

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Foodborne viral gastroenteritis: challenges and opportunities

scientific article published on 21 August 2002

Global Role and Burden of Influenza in Pediatric Respiratory Hospitalizations, 1982–2012: A Systematic Analysis

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Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Global rotavirus surveillance: determining the need and measuring the impact of rotavirus vaccines

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Gundovald, ‘Ballomer’ and the Problems of Identity

Health care transmission of a newly emergent adenovirus serotype in health care personnel at a military hospital in Texas, 2007.

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High-dose influenza vaccine in nursing home residents: not to be sneezed at.

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Hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009.

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Hospital triage system for adult patients using an influenza-like illness scoring system during the 2009 pandemic--Mexico

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Hospital-Based Surveillance of Rotavirus Diarrhea in the People's Republic of China, August 2003-July 2007.

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Household economic impact and attitudes toward school closures in two cities in Argentina during the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic

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How much could rotavirus vaccines reduce diarrhea-associated mortality in northern Ghana? A model to assess impact

scientific article published in November 2009

Human Coronavirus-Associated Influenza-Like Illness in the Community Setting in Peru

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Human aflatoxin exposure in Uganda: Estimates from a subset of the 2011 Uganda AIDS indicator survey (UAIS)

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Identification of molecular markers associated with alteration of receptor-binding specificity in a novel genotype of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses detected in Cambodia in 2013

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Identifying areas with a high risk of human infection with the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in East Asia

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Impact of Prompt Influenza Antiviral Treatment on Extended Care Needs After Influenza Hospitalization Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Implementing a Multisite Clinical Trial in the Midst of an Ebola Outbreak: Lessons Learned From the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine Against Ebola

scholarly article by Rosalind J Carter et al published 18 May 2018 in Journal of Infectious Diseases

Implementing an Ebola Vaccine Study - Sierra Leone

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Importance and challenges of accurately counting rotavirus deaths in China, 2002.

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Improvements in pandemic preparedness in 8 Central American countries, 2008-2012.

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Improving pandemic influenza risk assessment

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Incidence of acute gastroenteritis and role of norovirus, Georgia, USA, 2004-2005.

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Incidence of influenza-associated mortality and hospitalizations in Argentina during 2002-2009.

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Incidence of influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory infection during three influenza seasons in Bangladesh, 2008-2010.

scientific article published on 4 October 2011

Incidence of medically attended influenza among residents of Shai-Osudoku and Ningo-Prampram Districts, Ghana, May 2013 - April 2015

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Incidence of respiratory virus-associated pneumonia in urban poor young children of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009-2011.

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Indirect Effects of 10-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Against Adult Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Rural Western Kenya

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Infection with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 during the first wave of the 2009 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal seroepidemiologic study in Dhaka, Bangladesh

scientific article published on 8 July 2017

Infectious disease-specific health literacy in Tibet, China

scientific article published on 31 July 2016

Influenza Illness among Case-Patients Hospitalized for Suspected Dengue, El Salvador, 2012.

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Influenza cost and cost-effectiveness studies globally--a review

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Influenza in Africa: uncovering the epidemiology of a long-overlooked disease

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Influenza not MERS CoV among returning Hajj and Umrah pilgrims with respiratory illness, Kashmir, north India, 2014-15.

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Influenza seasonality and vaccination timing in tropical and subtropical areas of southern and south-eastern Asia

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Influenza surveillance in 15 countries in Africa, 2006-2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

Influenza-associated Hospitalizations and Deaths, Costa Rica, 2009-2012.

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Influenza-associated excess mortality in southern Brazil, 1980-2008.

scientific article published on 8 October 2012

Influenza-associated mortality in 2009 in four sentinel sites in Bangladesh

scientific article published in April 2012

International meeting on influenza vaccine effectiveness, 3-4 December 2012, Geneva, Switzerland

scientific article published on November 2014

Interspecies variation in the plasma halflife of oxytetracycline in relation to bodyweight.

scientific article published in March 1990

Knowledge, attitude, and practices about the seasonal influenza vaccination among healthcare workers in Srinagar, India

scientific article published on 2 August 2012

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of South African healthcare workers regarding the prevention and treatment of influenza among HIV-infected individuals

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Laboratory surveillance of bacterial gastroenteric pathogens in The Netherlands, 1991-2001.

scientific article published on June 2003

Large outbreak of norovirus: the baker who should have known better

scientific article published on 28 June 2007

Merovingian partitions: a ‘genealogical charter’?

Molecular and epidemiologic trends of caliciviruses associated with outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis in the United States, 2000-2004

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Molecular epidemiology of genogroup II-genotype 4 noroviruses in the United States between 1994 and 2006

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Monitoring avian influenza A(H7N9) virus through national influenza-like illness surveillance, China

scientific article published on August 2013

Mortality, severe acute respiratory infection, and influenza-like illness associated with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Argentina, 2009.

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National burden of hospitalized and non-hospitalized influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness in Kenya, 2012-2014.

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

National surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness in Vietnam, 2006-2010.

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No Serologic Evidence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection Among Camel Farmers Exposed to Highly Seropositive Camel Herds: A Household Linked Study, Kenya, 2013.

scientific article published on June 2017

Norovirus and Child Care

article by Elmira T. Isakbaeva et al published June 2005 in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Norovirus and child care: challenges in outbreak control

article by Elmira T Isakbaeva et al published June 2005 in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Norovirus and foodborne disease, United States, 1991-2000

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Norovirus outbreak in a district general hospital--new strain identified.

scientific article published on January 2007

Norovirus transmission on cruise ship

scientific article published on January 2005

Options for improvement of the Dutch measles vaccination schedule

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Outbreak of norovirus illness associated with a swimming pool

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Outbreak of norovirus infection among river rafters associated with packaged delicatessen meat, Grand Canyon, 2005.

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Outbreak of severe respiratory disease associated with emergent human adenovirus serotype 14 at a US air force training facility in 2007.

scientific article published in May 2009

Outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis on cruise ships and on land: identification of a predominant circulating strain of norovirus--United States, 2002.

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Paediatric influenza vaccination: time to better protect high-risk groups?

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Passenger behaviors associated with norovirus infection on board a cruise ship -- Alaska, May to June 2004

journal article published in 2008

Pilot to evaluate the feasibility of measuring seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness using surveillance platforms in Central-America, 2012.

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Population-based active surveillance cohort studies for influenza: lessons from Peru

scientific article published in April 2012

Population-based incidence of severe acute respiratory virus infections among children aged <5 years in rural Bangladesh, June-October 2010

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Potential impact of co-infections and co-morbidities prevalent in Africa on influenza severity and frequency: a systematic review

journal article published in 2015

Pre-symptomatic transmission of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009: investigation of a family cluster, Brazil.

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Preliminary population-based epidemiological and clinical data on 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A (pH1N1) from Lima, Peru

scientific article published on November 2009

Probable transmission of norovirus on an airplane.

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Protection by face masks against influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus on trans-Pacific passenger aircraft, 2009.

scientific article published on January 2013

Provider perspectives on demand creation for maternal vaccines in Kenya

scholarly article by Irina Bergenfeld et al published 19 July 2018 in Gates Open Research

Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare Immunogenicity of Standard-Dose Intramuscular Versus Intradermal Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex With Men in Bangkok, Thailand

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Reevaluation of epidemiological criteria for identifying outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis due to norovirus: United States, 1998-2000.

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Respiratory Viruses Associated Hospitalization among Children Aged <5 Years in Bangladesh: 2010-2014.

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Respiratory viruses in returning Hajj & Umrah pilgrims with acute respiratory illness in 2014-2015

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Risk factors associated with fatal influenza, Romania, October 2009-May 2011.

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Risk factors for death among children less than 5 years old hospitalized with diarrhea in rural western Kenya, 2005-2007: a cohort study

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Risk factors for influenza A(H7N9) disease--China, 2013.

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Risk of babesiosis and anaplasmosis in different ecological zones of Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia

scientific article published in November 2000

Risk of introduction of poliovirus into a Dutch Cape Verdian community during an outbreak of poliovirus in Cape Verde, 2000

scholarly article by Paul L J M Mertens et al published May 2006 in Tropical Medicine and International Health

Risk of norovirus transmission during air travel

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Rotavirus antigenemia in patients with acute gastroenteritis.

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Rotavirus disease and its prevention

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Rotavirus disease burden and impact and cost-effectiveness of a rotavirus vaccination program in kenya

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Rotavirus epidemiology: the Asian Rotavirus Surveillance Network.

scientific article published on 15 May 2008

Rotavirus vaccines: current prospects and future challenges

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SARS-associated coronavirus transmission, United States

scientific article published in February 2004

Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis phage type 4b outbreak associated with bean sprouts

scientific article published on April 2002

Seasonality, timing, and climate drivers of influenza activity worldwide

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Sentinel hospital surveillance for rotavirus in latin american and Caribbean countries

scientific article published on November 2009

Sero-epidemiologic study of influenza A(H7N9) infection among exposed populations, China 2013-2014.

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Severe Acute Respiratory Illness Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Role of Influenza: A Case Series From 8 Countries

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

Severe Influenza Is Characterized by Prolonged Immune Activation: Results From the SHIVERS Cohort Study

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Southern Hemisphere Influenza and Vaccine Effectiveness Research and Surveillance

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Systematic literature review of role of noroviruses in sporadic gastroenteritis

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The 2009 influenza pandemic - authors' reply

scientific article published in March 2013

The Global Threat of Animal Influenza Viruses of Zoonotic Concern: Then and Now.

scientific article published on September 2017

The Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine Against Ebola: An Evaluation of rVSV∆G-ZEBOV-GP Vaccine Tolerability and Safety During the West Africa Ebola Outbreak

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The Unrecognized Burden of Influenza in Young Kenyan Children, 2008-2012

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The burden of hospitalizations and clinic visits for rotavirus disease in children aged <5 years in the Philippines

scientific article published in November 2009

The burden of influenza and RSV among inpatients and outpatients in rural western Kenya, 2009-2012

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The cost of acute respiratory infections in Northern India: a multi-site study

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The effectiveness of seasonal trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in preventing laboratory confirmed influenza hospitalisations in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012

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The role of temperature and humidity on seasonal influenza in tropical areas: Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama, 2008-2013

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The seroprevalence of pandemic influenza H1N1 (2009) virus in China

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Timing of influenza A(H5N1) in poultry and humans and seasonal influenza activity worldwide, 2004-2013

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Timing of influenza epidemics and vaccines in the American tropics, 2002-2008, 2011-2014

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Transmission dynamics of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus in humans and swine in backyard farms in Tumbes, Peru.

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Trends in mortality from respiratory disease in Latin America since 1998 and the impact of the 2009 influenza pandemic.

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Update on rotavirus vaccines

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Uptake and Effectiveness of a Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Children in Urban and Rural Kenya, 2010 to 2012.

scientific article published on 11 December 2015

Use of national pneumonia surveillance to describe influenza A(H7N9) virus epidemiology, China, 2004-2013.

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Validity of clinical case definitions for influenza surveillance among hospitalized patients: results from a rural community in North India

scientific article published on 16 July 2012

What Is the Added Benefit of Oropharyngeal Swabs Compared to Nasal Swabs Alone for Respiratory Virus Detection in Hospitalized Children Aged <10 Years?

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Who interacts with whom? Social mixing insights from a rural population in India

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Will pediatricians adopt the new rotavirus vaccine?

Worldwide transmission and seasonal variation of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 virus activity during the 2009-2010 pandemic

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