Intra-host and intra-household diversity of influenza A viruses during household transmissions in the 2013 season in 2 peri-urban communities of South Africa

• Ziyaad Valley-Omar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: z.valley-omar@uct.ac.za (ZVO); florettet@nicd.ac.za (FKT)

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4804-3774

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• Preetha Iyengar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Claire von Mollendorf,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Stefano Tempia,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Alexandra Moerdyk,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Orienka Hellferscee,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Neil Martinson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Meredith McMorrow,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ebrahim Variava,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Katlego Masonoke,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Adam L. Cohen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Global Immunization Monitoring and Surveillance, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Cheryl Cohen,

  Roles Conceptualization, 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

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• Florette K. Treurnicht

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: z.valley-omar@uct.ac.za (ZVO); florettet@nicd.ac.za (FKT)

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

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