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

• Main Authors: Nusrat Homaira (Author), Stephen P Luby (Author), ASM Alamgir (Author), Kariul Islam (Author), Repon Paul (Author), Jaynal Abedin (Author), Mustafizur Rahman (Author), Tasnim Azim (Author), Goutam Podder (Author), Badrul Munir Sohel (Author), Abdullah Brooks (Author), Alicia M Fry (Author), Marc-Alain Widdowson (Author), Joseph Bresee (Author), Mahmudur Rahman (Author), Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2012-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...