Erratum: Air travel and the spread of influenza: Authors' reply (PLoS Medicine 3:11 doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030502);Air travel and the spread of influenza: Authors' reply [2]

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2160-2161

  Brownstein, John S ^a   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a   Wolfe, Cecily J ^b  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33845340749     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040033     Document Type: Erratum

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