Excess mortality associated with influenza epidemics in Portugal, 1980 to 2004

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Nunes, Baltazar ^a   Viboud, Cecile ^b   Machado, Ausenda ^a   Ringholz, Corinne ^b,d   Rebelo de Andrade, Helena ^a,c   Nogueira, Paulo ^a   Miller, Mark ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MEDICINES IMED ULISBOA   (Portugal)

^d ANSER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PORTUGAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIROLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PORTUGAL; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959366344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020661     Document Type: Article

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