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Influenza Burden and Transmission in the Tropics.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- High Clinical Burden of Influenza Disease in Adults Aged ≥ 65 Years: Can We Do Better? A Systematic Literature Review.Advances in therapy · 2023Pooled it
- The risk of lower respiratory tract infection following influenza virus infection: A systematic and narrative review.Vaccine · 2018Pooled it
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- Links between influenza epidemics, weather characteristics and all-cause mortality in the Czech Republic, 1982-2020.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Respiratory pathogen spectrum and epidemiological trends in Hainan Province: a retrospective analysis from 2017 to 2023.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Reconstructed influenza A/H3N2 infection histories reveal variation in incidence and antibody dynamics over the life course.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Local patterns of spread of influenza A H3N2 virus in coastal Kenya over a 1-year period revealed through virus sequence data.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Phylogeography and reassortment patterns of human influenza A viruses in sub-Saharan Africa.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Nicaraguan Pediatric Influenza Cohort Study, 2011-2019: Influenza Incidence, Seasonality, and Transmission.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Decreased influenza activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, 2020.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Age-seroprevalence curves for the multi-strain structure of influenza A virus.Nature communications · 2021Article
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- Characterizing the Countrywide Epidemic Spread of Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus in Kenya between 2009 and 2018.Viruses · 2021Article
- Modeling influenza seasonality in the tropics and subtropics.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Genetic Diversity of SARS-CoV2 and Environmental Settings: Possible Association with Neurological Disorders.Molecular neurobiology · 2021Review
- Forecasting influenza-like illness trends in Cameroon using Google Search Data.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Each year, influenza causes substantial mortality and morbidity worldwide. It is important to understand influenza in the tropics because of the significant burden in the region and its relevance to global influenza circulation. In this review, influenza burden, transmission dynamics, and their determinants in the tropics are discussed. Environmental, cultural, and social conditions in the tropics are very diverse and often differ from those of temperate regions. Theories that account for and predict influenza dynamics in temperate regions do not fully explain influenza epidemic patterns observed in the tropics. Routine surveillance and household studies have been useful in understanding influenza dynamics in the tropics, but these studies have been limited to only some regions; there is still a lack of information regarding influenza burden and transmission dynamics in many tropical countries. Further studies in the tropics will provide useful insight on many questions that remain.
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