Estimating the disease burden of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus infection in Hunter New England, Northern New South Wales, Australia, 2009

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Dawood, Fatimah S ^a   Hope, Kirsty G ^b   Durrheim, David N ^c   Givney, Rodney ^d   Fry, Alicia M ^a   Dalton, Craig B ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

^d JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

AGED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PANDEMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 79952115424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009880     Document Type: Article

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