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About the Authors:
Richard T. Davey Jr
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Ruth Lynfield
Affiliation: Infectious Disease Division, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Dominic E. Dwyer
Affiliation: Department of Virology, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
Marcello H. Losso
Affiliation: HIV Unit, Department of Medicine, Hospital José María Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri
Affiliation: Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
Deborah Wentworth
Affiliation: Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
H. Clifford Lane
Affiliation: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Robin Dewar
Affiliation: Virus Isolation and Serology Laboratory, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Adam Rupert
Affiliation: AIDS Monitoring Laboratory, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Julia A. Metcalf
Affiliation: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Sarah L. Pett
Affiliation: Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Timothy M. Uyeki
Affiliation: Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Jose Maria Bruguera
Affiliation: Servicio de Inmunocomprometidos, Hospital José María Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brian Angus
Affiliation: Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Nathan Cummins
Affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
Jens Lundgren
Affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital/Rigshospitalet & University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
James D. Neaton
The Writing Group assumes responsibility for the manuscript. Membership of the INSIGHT FLU 002 & 003 Study Groups is included in the Acknowledgements.
Affiliation: Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Introduction
The sudden and unexpected emergence in 2009 and subsequent rapid global spread of a novel influenza virus, A(H1N1)pdm09, was yet another reminder of the ongoing challenges posed by this rapidly evolving class of respiratory viruses to world health [1], [2]. Both its seeming defiance early...