Accuracy of epidemiological inferences based on publicly available information: retrospective comparative analysis of line lists of human cases infected with influenza A(H7N9) in China.

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Published in BMC Med on May 28, 2014

Authors

Eric H Y Lau, Jiandong Zheng, Tim K Tsang, Qiaohong Liao, Bryan Lewis, John S Brownstein, Sharon Sanders, Jessica Y Wong, Sumiko R Mekaru, Caitlin Rivers, Peng Wu, Hui Jiang, Yu Li, Jianxing Yu, Qian Zhang, Zhaorui Chang, Fengfeng Liu, Zhibin Peng, Gabriel M Leung, Luzhao Feng, Benjamin J Cowling1, Hongjie Yu

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China. bcowling@hku.hk.

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