An outbreak of type c influenza in a children's home

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 51-56

  Katagiri, Susumu ^a,b   Ohizumi, Akiko ^a,b   Homma, Morio ^a,b  

^a YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

CHILDREN HOME; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS C; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REINFECTION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMAGGLUTINATION, VIRAL; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0020566595     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/148.1.51     Document Type: Article

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