TY - JOUR AU - Yang, Juan AU - Lau, Yiu Chung AU - Wu, Peng AU - Feng, Luzhao AU - Wang, Xiling AU - Chen, Tao AU - Ali, Sheikh AU - Peng, Zhibin AU - Fang, Vicky AU - Zhang, Juanjuan AU - He, Yangni AU - Lau, Eric H.Y. AU - Qin, Ying AU - Yang, Jing AU - Zheng, Jiandong AU - Jiang, Hui AU - Yu, Hongjie AU - Cowling, Benjamin T1 - Variation in Influenza B Virus Epidemiology by Lineage, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 8 SP - 1536 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We used national sentinel surveillance data in China for 2005–2016 to examine the lineage-specific epidemiology of influenza B. Influenza B viruses circulated every year with relatively lower activity than influenza A. B/Yamagata was more frequently detected in adults than in children. KW - Influenza B KW - epidemiology KW - lineage KW - Yamagata KW - Victoria KW - China KW - viruses KW - influenza KW - respiratory infections DO - 10.3201/eid2408.180063 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/8/18-0063_article ER - End of Reference