Searching for sharp drops in the incidence of pandemic A/H1N1 influenza by single year of age.

Searching for sharp drops in the incidence of pandemic A/H1N1 influenza by single year of age.

During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1), morbidity and mortality sparing was observed among the elderly population; it was hypothesized that this age group benefited from immunity to pH1N1 due to cross-reactive antibodies generated from prior infection with antigenically similar influenza viruses. Evi...

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Main Authors: Jessica Hartman Jacobs, Brett Nicholas Archer, Michael G Baker, Benjamin J Cowling, Richard T Heffernan, Geoff Mercer, Osvaldo Uez, Wanna Hanshaoworakul, Cécile Viboud, Joel Schwartz, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Marc Lipsitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3410923?pdf=render

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