Incidence and neutralizing antibody seroprevalence of influenza B virus in Egypt: Results of a community-based cohort study

• Noura M. Abo Shama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Virus, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

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• Sara H. Mahmoud,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Virus, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

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• Ola Bagato,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Virus, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt, Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Riems, Germany

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• Elsayed Tarek AbdElsalam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Gamaa Street, Giza, Egypt

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• Maha Alkhazindar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Gamaa Street, Giza, Egypt

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• Ahmed Kandeil,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Virus, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America

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• Pamela P. McKenzie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America

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• Richard J. Webby,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America

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• Mohamed A. Ali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Virus, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

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• Ghazi Kayali ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ghazi@human-link.org (GK); rabeh.elshesheny@human-link.org (RE)

  Affiliation Human Link, Dubai, UAE

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5387-1622

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• Rabeh El-Shesheny

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ghazi@human-link.org (GK); rabeh.elshesheny@human-link.org (RE)

  Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Virus, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

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