Impact of the 2009 influenza pandemic

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 471-472

  Dunning, J ^a   Openshaw, P J M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; INFLUENZA VACCINE; STEROID;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LUNG INFECTION; MEDICAL CARE; MEXICO; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STEROID THERAPY; VIRAL PNEUMONITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MEXICO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953713048     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2009.133728     Document Type: Editorial

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