Programme of the Community Network of Reference Laboratories for Human Influenza to Improve Influenza Surveillance in Europe

Vaccine

Volumn 24, Issue 44-46, 2006, Pages 6717-6723

  Meijer, Adam ^a,b   Brown, Caroline ^a   Hungnes, Olav ^c   Schweiger, Brunhilde ^d   Valette, Martine ^e   van der Werf, Sylvie ^f   Zambon, Maria ^g  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^g Respiratory Virus Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Influenza Surveillance Scheme; Influenza; Laboratory network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFORMATION CENTER; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ROMANIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; STANDARDIZATION; SWITZERLAND; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LABORATORIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33748606959     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.05.068     Document Type: Article

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