Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: Time for reassessment?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 541-542

  Smith, David W ^a   Speers, David J ^a   Bowman, Rodney A ^a  

^a PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONSULTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY; LETTER; PANDEMIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURNAROUND TIME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77952357876     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03625.x     Document Type: Letter

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