Preliminary population‐based epidemiological and clinical data on 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A (pH1N1) from Lima, Peru
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clinical data on 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A (pH1N1) from Lima, Peru Yeny Tinoco, Hugo Razuri, Ernesto J. Ortiz, Jorge Gomez, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Timothy Uyeki, Victor Alberto Laguna-Torres, Tadeusz J. Kochel, Robert H. Gilman, and Joel M. Montgomery, for the Peru Influenza Working Group* US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru. Peruvian Ministry of Health, Direccion General de Epidemiologia, Lima, Peru. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA, Influenza Division. John Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Correspondence: Joel M. Montgomery, US Public Health Service, Director, Department of Epidemiology and Emerging Infections, Naval Medical Research Center Detachment-Peru CDC Liaison and Influenza Division Field Assignee. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] *see Appendix
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