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SUBMITTER: Garza RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3713818 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garza Roberto C RC Basurto-Dávila Ricardo R Ortega-Sanchez Ismael R IR Carlino Luis Oreste LO Meltzer Martin I MI Albalak Rachel R Balbuena Karina K Orellano Pablo P Widdowson Marc-Alain MA Averhoff Francisco F
Emerging infectious diseases 20130601 6
School closures are used to reduce seasonal and pandemic influenza transmission, yet evidence of their effectiveness is sparse. In Argentina, annual winter school breaks occur during the influenza season, providing an opportunity to study this intervention. We used 2005-2008 national weekly surveillance data of visits to a health care provider for influenza-like illness (ILI) from all provinces. Using Serfling-specified Poisson regressions and population-based census denominators, we developed i ...[more]