@article {24356,
	title = {Estimating Incidence Curves of Several Infections Using Symptom Surveillance Data},
	journal = {PLoS ONE},
	volume = {6},
	number = {8},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {e23380},
	abstract = {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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	author = {Edward Goldstein and Benjamin J. Cowling and Allison E. Aiello and Saki Takahashi and Gary King and Ying Lu and Marc Lipsitch}
}
