Influenza and pneumonia mortality in 66 large cities in the United States in years surrounding the 1918 pandemic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Acuna Soto, Rodolfo ^a   Viboud, Cécile ^b   Chowell, Gerardo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPANISH INFLUENZA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CITY; HISTORY; INFLUENZA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PANDEMIC; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICS; TIME;

CITIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051854215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023467     Document Type: Article

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