From the *Department of Pediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; †Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; ‡Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA; §Health and Social Services, Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada; ¶Baffin Regional Hospital, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada; ∥Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; **Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC), Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ††MORE Research Group, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and ‡‡Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Accepted for publication February 2, 2009.
Supported by the Government of Nunavut, Health and Social Services. The sponsors had no role in data collection, analysis or interpretation.
Dr. Banerji was hired as a consultant for the Government of Nunavut, Health and Social Services, to study respiratory tract infections in Inuit Children.
The authors are declaring no conflict of interest.
Address for correspondence: Anna Banerji, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, 61 Queen Street East, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada M5C 2T2. E-mail: [email protected].
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