Mortality in children aged <5 years with severe acute respiratory illness in a high HIV-prevalence urban and rural areas of South Africa, 2009–2013

• Oluwatosin A. Ayeni ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Oayeni@witshealth.co.za

  Current address: Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Paediatrics, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; Non communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1132-2860

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• Sibongile Walaza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Stefano Tempia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Influenza Programme, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, Mass Genics, Duluth, Georgia, Unites States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4395-347X

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• Michelle Groome,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical Research Council, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, 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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• Kathleen Kahn,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana

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• Shabir A. Madhi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical Research Council, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, 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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• Adam L. Cohen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Influenza Programme, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jocelyn Moyes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Marietjie Venter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Marthi Pretorius,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-6158

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• Florette Treurnicht,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0853-8011

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• Orienka Hellferscee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Anne von Gottberg,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0243-7455

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• Nicole Wolter,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Cheryl Cohen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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