Improving ILI Surveillance using Hospital Staff Influenza-like Absence (ILA)
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1Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 2University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom; 4Health Protection Agency Syndromic Surveillance Team, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 5Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 6Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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