Human infection with avian Influenza virus, Pakistan, 2007

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1056-1059

  Zaman, Mukhtiar ^a   Ashraf, Saadia ^a   Dreyer, Nancy A ^b   Toovey, Stephen ^c  

^a KHYBER TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b Outcome Sciences   (United States)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); MALE; PAKISTAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; RHINORRHEA; SCHOOL CHILD; SORE THROAT; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79957640114     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid/1706.091652     Document Type: Article

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