An outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza a (H1N1) virus infection in an elementary school in Pennsylvania

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Marchbanks, Tiffany L ^a   Bhattarai, Achuyt ^b   Fagan, Ryan P ^b   Ostroff, Stephen ^a   Sodha, Samir V ^b   Moll, Mria E ^a   Lee, Bruce Y ^c,d,e   Chang, Chung Chou H ^c,f   Ennis, Brent ^a   Britz, Phyllis ^a   Fiore, Anthony ^b   Nguyen, Michael ^b   Palekar, Rakhee ^b   Archer, W Roodly ^b   Gift, Thomas L ^b   Leap, Rebecca ^b   Nygren, Benjamin L ^b   Cauchemez, Simon ^g   Angulo, Frederick J ^b   Swerdlow, David ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine   (United States)

^d Epidemiology   (United States)

^e Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; SCHOOLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953766803     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq058     Document Type: Article

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