About the Authors
- Saverio Caini
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: s.caini@nivel.nl
Affiliation Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel), Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Gabriela Kusznierz
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute of Respiratory Diseases "Emilio Coni", Santa Fe, Argentina
- Verònica Vera Garate
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute of Respiratory Diseases "Emilio Coni", Santa Fe, Argentina
- Sonam Wangchuk
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Royal Centre for Disease Control, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Thimphu, Bhutan
- Binay Thapa
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Royal Centre for Disease Control, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Thimphu, Bhutan
- Francisco José de Paula Júnior
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ministry of Health, Department of Surveillance of Transmissible Diseases, Brasília/DF, Brazil
- Walquiria Aparecida Ferreira de Almeida
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ministry of Health, Department of Surveillance of Transmissible Diseases, Brasília/DF, Brazil
- Richard Njouom
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Virology Department, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Rodrigo A. Fasce
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Sub-Department of Viral Diseases, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Patricia Bustos
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Sub-Department of Viral Diseases, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Luzhao Feng
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, P.R. China
- Zhibin Peng
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, P.R. China
- Jenny Lara Araya
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Ministry of Health, San José, Costa Rica
- Alfredo Bruno
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations National Institute of Public Health Research (INSPI), National Reference Centre for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Agricultural University of Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Doménica de Mora
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute of Public Health Research (INSPI), National Reference Centre for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Mónica Jeannette Barahona de Gámez
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Ministry of Health, San Salvador, El Salvador
- Richard Pebody
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health England, London, England, United Kingdom
- Maria Zambon
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health England, London, England, United Kingdom
- Rocio Higueros
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Ministry of Health, Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Rudevelinda Rivera
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Ministry of Health, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Herman Kosasih
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation US Naval Medical Research Unit No.2, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Maria Rita Castrucci
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
- Antonino Bella
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
- Hervé A. Kadjo
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Epidemic Virus, Institut Pasteur, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Coulibaly Daouda
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Service of Epidemiological Diseases Surveillance, National Institute of Public Hygiene, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Ainash Makusheva
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Center of Expertise, Committee of Public Health Protection, Ministry of Health, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Olga Bessonova
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Center of Expertise, Committee of Public Health Protection, Ministry of Health, Uralsk City, Kazakhstan
- Sandra S. Chaves
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nairobi, Kenya
- Gideon O. Emukule
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nairobi, Kenya
- Jean-Michel Heraud
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Norosoa H. Razanajatovo
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Amal Barakat
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Institut National d'Hygiène, Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco
- Fatima El Falaki
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Institut National d'Hygiène, Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco
- Adam Meijer
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and Laboratory Surveillance, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Gé A. Donker
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel), Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Q. Sue Huang
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Weillngton, New Zealand
- Tim Wood
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Weillngton, New Zealand
- Angel Balmaseda
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, Ministry of Health, Managua, Nicaragua
- Rakhee Palekar
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Brechla Moreno Arévalo
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Center, IC Gorgas, Panama City, Panama
- Ana Paula Rodrigues
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of epidemiology, National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
- Raquel Guiomar
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Influenza Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
- Vernon Jian Ming Lee
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health Group, Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore
- Li Wei Ang
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health Group, Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore
- Cheryl Cohen
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Florette Treurnicht
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Alla Mironenko
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation L.V.Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, National Academy of Medical Science of Ukraine, Department of Respiratory and other Viral Infections, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Olha Holubka
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation L.V.Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, National Academy of Medical Science of Ukraine, Department of Respiratory and other Viral Infections, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Joseph Bresee
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Influenza Division, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Lynnette Brammer
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Mai T. Q. Le
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Phuong V. M. Hoang
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Clotilde El Guerche-Séblain
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Global Vaccine Epidemiology and Modeling Department (VEM), Franchise Epidemiologist, Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France
- John Paget
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel), Utrecht, The Netherlands
- the Global Influenza B Study team
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¶The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Clotilde El-Guerche Séblain is an employee of Sanofi Pasteur. She was the coordinator of the research project at Sanofi Pasteur, she helped define the study objectives, and critically revised the manuscript. When reviewing the manuscript, the revisions concerned the epidemiological findings of the study and not the public health findings or conclusions. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Cheryl Cohen has received grant support from Sanofi Pasteur, Advanced Vaccine Initiative, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and payment of travel costs from Parexel. All of the other authors declare that they have no conflict of interests to disclose.