Mobile messaging as surveillance tool during pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Mexico

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1488-1489

  Lajous, Martín ^a,b   Danon, Leon ^b,c   López Ridaura, Ruy ^a,b   Astley, Christina M ^b   Miller, Joel C ^b,d   Dowell, Scott F ^e   O'Hagan, Justin J ^b   Goldstein, Edward ^b   Lipsitch, Marc ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MOBILE PHONE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; PANDEMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956047408     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100671     Document Type: Letter

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