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Influenza - 100 years on

A look back at our most highly accessed influenza papers of 2018-2019

REVIEW
A year of terror and a century of reflection: perspectives on the great influenza pandemic of 1918–1919
Michaela E. Nickol and Jason Kindrachuk

BMC Infectious Diseases 2019 19:117
Published on: 6 February 2019

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Seasonal dynamics of influenza in Brazil: the latitude effect​​​​​​​
Alexandra Almeida, Cláudia Codeço and Paula Luz

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:695
Published on: 27 December 2018

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“With fever it’s the real flu I would say”: laypersons’ perception of common cold and influenza and their differences - a qualitative study in Austria, Belgium and Croatia
Elisabeth Anne-Sophie Mayrhuber, Wim Peersman, Nina van de Kraats, Goranka Petricek, Asja Ćosić Diviak, Silvia Wojczewski and Kathryn Hoffmann

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:647
Published on: 12 December 2018

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Pandemic influenza preparedness in the WHO African region: are we ready yet?​​​​​​​
Evanson Z. Sambala, Tiwonge Kanyenda, Chinwe Juliana Iwu, Chidozie Declan Iwu, Anelisa Jaca and Charles S. Wiysonge

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:567
Published on: 14 November 2018

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Deposition of respiratory virus pathogens on frequently touched surfaces at airports​​​​​​​Niina Ikonen, Carita Savolainen-Kopra, Joanne E. Enstone, Ilpo Kulmala, Pertti Pasanen, Anniina Salmela, Satu Salo, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, Petri Ruutu and the PANDHUB consortium

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:437
Published on: 29 August 2018

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Comparison of crowd-sourced, electronic health records based, and traditional health-care based influenza-tracking systems at multiple spatial resolutions in the United States of America​​​​​​​
Kristin Baltrusaitis, John S. Brownstein, Samuel V. Scarpino, Eric Bakota, Adam W. Crawley, Giuseppe Conidi, Julia Gunn, Josh Gray, Anna Zink and Mauricio Santillana

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:403
Published on: 15 August 2018

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Unlocking pandemic potential: prevalence and spatial patterns of key substitutions in avian influenza H5N1 in Egyptian isolate
Sean G. Young,  Andrew Kitchen, Ghazi Kayali and Margaret Carrel

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:314
Published on: 6 July 2018

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Distribution of influenza virus types by age using case-based global surveillance data from twenty-nine countries, 1999-2014​​​​​​​
Saverio Caini, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Gabriela F. Kusznierz, Juan Manuel Rudi, Rhonda Owen, Kate Pennington, Sonam Wangchuk, Sonam Gyeltshen, Walquiria Aparecida Ferreira de Almeida, Cláudio Maierovitch Pessanha Henriques, Richard Njouom, Marie-Astrid Vernet, Rodrigo A. Fasce, Winston Andrade, Hongjie Yu, Luzhao Feng, Juan Yang, Zhibin Peng, Jenny Lara, Alfredo Bruno, Doménica de Mora, Celina de Lozano, Maria Zambon, Richard Pebody, Leticia Castillo, Alexey W. Clara, Maria Luisa Matute, Herman Kosasih, Nurhayati, Simona Puzelli, Caterina Rizzo, Herve A. Kadjo, Coulibaly Daouda, Lyazzat Kiyanbekova, Akerke Ospanova, Joshua A. Mott, Gideon O. Emukule, Jean-Michel Heraud, Norosoa Harline Razanajatovo, Amal Barakat, Fatima el Falaki, Sue Q. Huang, Liza Lopez, Angel Balmaseda, Brechla Moreno, Ana Paula Rodrigues, Raquel Guiomar, Li Wei Ang, Vernon Jian Ming Lee, Marietjie Venter, Cheryl Cohen, Selim Badur, Meral A. Ciblak, Alla Mironenko, Olha Holubka, Joseph Bresee, Lynnette Brammer, Phuong Vu Mai Hoang, Mai Thi Quynh Le, Douglas Fleming, Clotilde El-Guerche Séblain, François Schellevis, John Paget and Global Influenza B Study group

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:269
Published on: 8 June 2018

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The impact of regular school closure on seasonal influenza epidemics: a data-driven spatial transmission model for Belgium​​​​​​​
Giancarlo De Luca, Kim Van Kerckhove, Pietro Coletti, Chiara Poletto, Nathalie Bossuyt, Niel Hens and Vittoria Colizza

BMC Infectious Diseases 2018 18:29
Published on: 10 January 2018

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