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. 2021 Jul 14;12:4313. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24566-y

Fig. 1. Historical frequencies and age distributions of the influenza B lineages.

Fig. 1

a Distribution of medically attended influenza B cases in New Zealand in 2001–2019 by age (in years) of the infected person. b Frequency of B/Yamagata estimated from sequences deposited on GISAID and the NCBI Influenza Virus Database. Frequencies were estimated for New Zealand and Australia combined to increase power. The circles are annotated with the number of isolates used to estimate frequencies in each season. In 2001 and 2003, when both lineages were known to be circulating in Australia and New Zealand but the number of isolates from those countries combined were small, we estimated lineage frequencies using isolates from all countries represented in the sequence databases. c Distribution of medically attended influenza B cases in New Zealand in 2001–2019 by birth year of the infected person. In a and c, the fraction of cases was calculated relative to all cases observed for each lineage (including ages and birth years not shown in the figure).