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PLOS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023380
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- United States National Institutes of Health Models of Infectious Disease [1 U54 GM088558]
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [U01C1000441]
- Hong Kong University Grants Committee [AoE/M-12/06]
- Harvard College
- RocheRpar
- Pfizer/Wyeth
- AIR Worldwide
- Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
- MedImmune Inc.
- Avian/Pandemic Flu Registry
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We introduce a method for estimating incidence curves of several co-circulating infectious pathogens, where each infection has its own probabilities of particular symptom profiles. Our deconvolution method utilizes weekly surveillance data on symptoms from a defined population as well as additional data on symptoms from a sample of virologically confirmed infectious episodes. We illustrate this method by numerical simulations and by using data from a survey conducted on the University of Michigan campus. Last, we describe the data needs to make such estimates accurate.
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