Pandemic influenza: Clinical issues

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 185, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Boyd, Mark ^a   Clezy, Kate ^b   Lindley, Richard ^c   Pearce, Rod ^d  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Beulah Park Medical Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLIMATE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYELITIS; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SUPERINFECTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS STRAIN; WINTER;

EID: 37849186840     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00706.x     Document Type: Article

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