A summer outbreak of influenza A virus infection among young children

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 595-597

  Wolf, Dana G ^a   Rekhtman, David ^a   Kerem, Eitan ^a   Hay, Alan ^b   Mador, Nurith ^a   Greenbaum, Evgenia ^a   Dorozhko, Marina ^a   Gregory, Victoria ^b   Yi, Pu Lin ^b   Zakay Rones, Zichria ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; ISRAEL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISRAEL;

EID: 4344641324     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422457     Document Type: Article

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