Case fatality rates based on population estimates of influenza-like illness due to novel H1N1 influenza: New York City, May-June 2009

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Hadler, James L ^a   Konty, Kevin ^a   McVeigh, Katharine H ^a   Fine, Anne ^a   Eisenhower, Donna ^a   Kerker, Bonnie ^a   Thorpe, Lorna ^a,b  

^a City of New York ^*  (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SORE THROAT; UNITED STATES; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955366038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011677     Document Type: Article

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