Etiology of acute meningitis and encephalitis from hospital-based surveillance in South Kazakhstan oblast, February 2017—January 2018

• Yekaterina Bumburidi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hnz6@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Central Asian Regional Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Almaty, Kazakhstan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0514-5108

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• Gulmira Utepbergenova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Department of Infectious Diseases and Phthisiatry, Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Kazakhstan, Turkestan

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• Bakhtygali Yerezhepov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent

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• Nursulu Berdiyarova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent

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• Kaldikul Kulzhanova,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Shymkent City Infectious Disease Hospital–Regional Department of Health Care, Southern Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, Shymkent

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• Jennifer Head,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA, United States of America, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Washington DC, United States of America

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• Daphne Moffett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Asian Regional Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Daniel Singer,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Central Asian Regional Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3663-9696

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• Pawan Angra,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Toni Whistler,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• James Sejvar

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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