Predicting influenza infections during epidemics with use of a clinical case definition

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1166-1169

  Boivin, Guy ^a   Hardy, Isabelle ^a   Tellier, Guy ^b   Maziade, Jean ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Zoom International ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NOSE SMEAR; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SORE THROAT; THROAT CULTURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; COUGH; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCULAR DISEASES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUEBEC; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0034456021     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317425     Document Type: Article

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