Avian influenza - A challenge to global health care structures

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2363-2365

  Hien, Tran Tinh ^a   De Jong, Menno ^b   Farrar, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; VACCINATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POULTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 16544364998     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp048267     Document Type: Review

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