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

OBJECTIVE: To estimate influenza-associated mortality in Bangladesh in 2009. METHODS: In four hospitals in Bangladesh, respiratory samples were collected twice a month throughout 2009 from inpatients aged <5 years with severe pneumonia and from older inpatients with severe acute respiratory infec...

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Main Authors: Nusrat Homaira, Stephen P Luby, ASM Alamgir, Kariul Islam, Repon Paul, Jaynal Abedin, Mustafizur Rahman, Tasnim Azim, Goutam Podder, Badrul Munir Sohel, Abdullah Brooks, Alicia M Fry, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph Bresee, Mahmudur Rahman, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2012-04-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862012000400010&lng=en&tlng=en