About the Authors
- Joan Puig-Barberà
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* E-mail: puig_joa@gva.es
Affiliations Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana (FISABIO), Valencia, Spain, Centro de Salud Pública de Castellón, Castellón, Spain
- Juan García-de-Lomas
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Affiliation Instituto Valenciano de Microbiología, Valencia, Spain
- Javier Díez-Domingo
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Affiliation Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana (FISABIO), Valencia, Spain
- Alberto Arnedo-Pena
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Affiliation Centro de Salud Pública de Castellón, Castellón, Spain
- Montserrat Ruiz-García
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Affiliation Centro de Salud Pública de Castellón, Castellón, Spain
- Ramón Limón-Ramírez
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Affiliation Hospital de la Plana, Vila-real, Spain
- Silvia Pérez-Vilar
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Affiliation Hospital de la Plana, Vila-real, Spain
- José Luis Micó-Esparza
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Affiliation Hospital Aranau de Vilanova, Valencia, Spain
- Miguel Tortajada-Girbés
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Affiliation Hospital Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain
- Concha Carratalá-Munuera
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Affiliations Hospital San Juan, Alicante, Spain, Cátedra de Medicina de Familia, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan, Alicante, Spain
- Rosa Larrea-González
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Affiliation Hospital General de Castellón, Castellón, Spain
- Juan Manuel Beltrán-Garrido
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Affiliation Hospital General de Castellón, Castellón, Spain
- Maria del Carmen Otero-Reigada
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Affiliation Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain
- Joan Mollar-Maseres
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Affiliation Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain
- Patricia Correcher-Medina
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Affiliation Hospital Lluis Alcanyis, Xativa, Spain, 12 Centro de Salud San Blas, Alicante, Spain, 13 Hospital de Elda, Elda, Spain
- Germán Schwarz-Chavarri
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Affiliation Centro de Salud San Blas, Alicante, Spain
- Vicente Gil-Guillén
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Affiliations Cátedra de Medicina de Familia, Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan, Alicante, Spain, Hospital de Elda, Elda, Spain
- for the Valencia Hospital Network for the Study of Influenza and Respiratory Virus Disease
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¶Membership of the Valencia Hospital Network for the Study of Influenza and Respiratory Virus Disease is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: JPB and JDD work in FISABIO's Vaccines Research Area; FISABIO has received funding for GSK, Novartis, Pfizer, SanofiPasteur, Sanofi-Pasteur MSD for conducting epidemiological studies on infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine effectiveness, pharmacoeconomics, and safety studies. The Vaccines Research Area is and has been involved in various randomized clinical trials with GSK, Novartis, Pfizer and MSD vaccines. This specific study was funded by contracts between FISABIO-Salud Publica (former CSISP) and Sanofi-Pasteur and FISABIO-Salud Pública (former CSISP)and Sanofi-Pasteur MSD. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JPB. Analyzed the data: JPB AAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGL. Wrote the paper: JPB JDD AAP JGL. Conception and design: MRG RLR SPV JLME MTG CCM RLG JMBG MCOR JMM PCM GSC VGG. Acquisition of data: MRG RLR SPV JLME MTG CCM RLG JMBG MCOR JMM PCM GSC VGG. Interpretation of data: MRG RLR SPV JLME MTG CCM RLG JMBG MCOR JMM PCM GSC VGG. Reviewed article or revised it critically for important intellectual content: MRG RLR SPV JLME MTG CCM RLG JMBG MCOR JMM PCM GSC VGG.