Evaluation of Two Influenza Surveillance Systems in South Africa

• Eric Budgell ,

  * E-mail: ebudgell@heroza.org

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Adam L. Cohen,

  Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States and Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jo McAnerney,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Sibongile Walaza,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Shabir A. Madhi,

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lucille Blumberg,

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Halima Dawood,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Hospital Complex and University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

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• Kathleen Kahn,

  Affiliation MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Stefano Tempia,

  Affiliations Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States and Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, CTS Global, Inc., Los Angeles, United States of America

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• Marietjie Venter,

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, Zoonoses Research Unit, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Cheryl Cohen

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, Schools of Public Health and Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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