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Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
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School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more… for adapting the Japanese algorithm for use with all-cause absenteeism, using data on the rate of … To determine the optimal pattern in school-specific all-cause absenteeism for use in informing school closure … ABSTRACT Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing … -
Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more… to the household and community spread of influenza, due in This is an Open Access article distributed under the … children also reduces population-wide morbidity due to influenza.5 Acknowledgements This paper was presented … in children by polymerase chain reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, …