About the Authors
- Kathryn E. Lafond
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* E-mail: gmj3@cdc.gov (KEL); zux5@cdc.gov (MAW)
Affiliations Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- Harish Nair
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Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
- Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly
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Affiliation Afghanistan National Public Health Institute, Ministry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan
- Fátima Valente
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Affiliation National Directorate of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Luanda, Angola
- Robert Booy
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Affiliation National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
- Mahmudur Rahman
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Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Paul Kitsutani
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Hongjie Yu
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
- Guiselle Guzman
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Affiliation Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, San José, Costa Rica
- Daouda Coulibaly
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Affiliation Pasteur Institut of Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- Julio Armero
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Affiliation Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
- Daddi Jima
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Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Stephen R. C. Howie
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Unit, Fajara, The Gambia, Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- William Ampofo
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Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
- Ricardo Mena
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Affiliation Ministerio de Salud Publica y Asistencia Social, Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Mandeep Chadha
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Affiliation National Institute of Virology, Pune, India
- Ondri Dwi Sampurno
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Affiliation National Institute of Health Research and Development, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Gideon O. Emukule
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nairobi, Kenya
- Zuridin Nurmatov
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Affiliation Ministry of Health, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Andrew Corwin
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jean Michel Heraud
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Affiliation National Influenza Centre, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur of Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Daniel E. Noyola
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Affiliation Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Radu Cojocaru
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Affiliation National Centre for Public Health, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- Pagbajabyn Nymadawa
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Affiliation National Influenza Center, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Amal Barakat
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Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiène, Ministère de la Santé, Rabat, Morocco
- Adebayo Adedeji
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Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria
- Marta von Horoch
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Affiliation Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, Asunción, Paraguay
- Remigio Olveda
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Affiliation Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines
- Thierry Nyatanyi
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Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda
- Marietjie Venter
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Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Zoonoses Research Unit, Department Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Vida Mmbaga
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Affiliation Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Malinee Chittaganpitch
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Affiliation National Institute of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
- Tran Hien Nguyen
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Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Viet Nam
- Andros Theo
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Affiliation Virology Laboratory, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
- Melissa Whaley
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Joseph Bresee
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Harry Campbell
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Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Marc-Alain Widdowson
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* E-mail: gmj3@cdc.gov (KEL); zux5@cdc.gov (MAW)
Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Global Respiratory Hospitalizations—Influenza Proportion Positive (GRIPP) Working Group
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¶Membership of the GRIPP Working Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
We have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: DEN has participated on an influenza advisory board for Novartis. RB works with all major manufacturers of influenza vaccines in an advisory capacity, as a researcher on vaccines and as presenter of academic info at conferences, receiving support to travel and attend such conferences. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KEL HN MAW. Performed the experiments: KEL MW EAB MAW. Analyzed the data: KEL HN EAB MAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KEL HN MW. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: KEL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MAW. Enrolled patients: MHR FV RB MR PK HY GG DC JA DJ SH WA RM MCha ODS GOE ZN AC JMH DEN RC PN AB AA MvH RO TN MV VM MChi THN AT GRIPP-WG. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: KEL HN MHR FV RB MR PK HY GG DC JA DJ SRCH WA RM MCha ODS GOE ZN AC JMH DEN RC PN AB AA MvH RO TN MV VM MChi THN AT MW EAB JB HC MAW GRIPP-WG. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.