Influenza in outpatient ILI case-patients in national hospital-based surveillance, Bangladesh, 2007-2008

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zaman, Rashid Uz ^a   Alamgir, A S M ^b   Rahman, Mustafizur ^a   Azziz Baumgartner, Eduardo ^a,c   Gurley, Emily S ^a,d   Sharker, M Abu Yushuf ^a   Brooks, W Abdullah ^a,d   Azim, Tasnim ^a   Fry, Alicia M ^c   Lindstrom, Stephen ^c   Gubareva, Larisa V ^c   Xu, Xiyan ^c   Garten, Rebecca J ^c   Hossain, M Jahangir ^a   Khan, Salah Uddin ^a   Faruque, Labib Imran ^a   Ameer, Syeda Shegufta ^a   Klimov, Alexander I ^c   Rahman, Mahmudur ^b   Luby, Stephen P ^a,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research   (Bangladesh)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; POULTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; POULTRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949521506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008452     Document Type: Article

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