Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of the WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) criteria in Middle Eastern children under two years over three respiratory seasons

• Thomas Klink,

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

  Affiliation Medicine and Pediatric Residency Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Danielle A. Rankin,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Vanderbilt Epidemiology PhD Program, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3018-3373

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• Bhinnata Piya,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Andrew J. Spieker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Samir Faouri,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Al Bashir Hospital, Amman, Jordan

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• Asem Shehabi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Jordan University, Amman, Jordan

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• John V. Williams,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Najwa Khuri-Bulos ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Jordan University, Amman, Jordan

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• Natasha B. Halasa

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Natasha.halasa@vumc.org

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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