Influenza Surveillance in Community-Dwelling Elderly Compared with Children

Archives of Family Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 459-465

  Long, Christine E ^a   Hall, Caroline B ^a   Cunningham, Coleen K ^c   Weiner, Leonard B ^c   Alger, Kathleen P ^d   Gouveia, Maria ^a   Colella, Carol B ^c   Schnabel, Kenneth C ^a   Barker, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Departments of Family Medicine   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Onondaga County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 0031226257     PISSN: 10633987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfami.6.5.459     Document Type: Article

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