Influenza infectious dose may explain the high mortality of the second and third wave of 1918 1919 influenza pandemic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Paulo, A Cristina ^a   Correia Neves, Margarida ^a   Domingos, Tiago ^b   Murta, Alberto G ^c   Pedrosa, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRING; WINTER; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PATHOGENICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77955639691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011655     Document Type: Article

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