Assessing influenza-related mortality: Comment on Zucs et al.

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dushoff, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY;

EID: 24144438674     PISSN: 17427622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-2-7     Document Type: Note

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