Planning for an influenza pandemic: Thinking beyond the virus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 198, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 945-947

  McCullers, Jonathan A ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LUNG BIOPSY; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51849131208     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592165     Document Type: Editorial

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