A clinical diagnostic model for predicting influenza among young adult military personnel with febrile respiratory illness in Singapore

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Vernon J ^a,b,c   Yap, Jonathan ^a   Cook, Alex R ^b   Tan, Chi Hsien ^a   Loh, Jin Phang ^e   Koh, Wee Hong ^e   Lim, Elizabeth A S ^e   Liaw, Jasper C W ^e   Chew, Janet S W ^e   Hossain, Iqbal ^e   Chan, Ka Wei ^e   Ting, Pei Jun ^e   Ng, Sock Hoon ^e   Gao, Qiuhan ^a   Kelly, Paul M ^c   Chen, Mark I ^b,d   Tambyah, Paul A ^b   Tan, Boon Huan ^e  

^a Ministry of Defence Government of Singapore   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c The Australian National University   (Australia)

^d TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CHILL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EYE PAIN; FEBRILE RESPIRATORY ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INFLUENZA B; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NOSE SMEAR; OTALGIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RIGOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGAPORE; SORE THROAT; THORAX PAIN; TONSILLITIS; VOMITING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLDIER; VIROLOGY;

FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGAPORE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952300495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017468     Document Type: Article

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