Influenza surveillance among outpatients and inpatients in Morocco, 1996-2009

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Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Barakat, Amal ^a   Ihazmad, Hassan ^a   Benkaroum, Samira ^a   Cherkaoui, Imad ^a   Benmamoun, Abderahman ^b   Youbi, Mohammed ^a   El Aouad, Rajae ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D HYGIÈNE   (Morocco)

^b Ministry of Health Morocco   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THROAT CULTURE; TREND STUDY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; WINTER; AGED; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

NASO; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INPATIENTS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; OUTPATIENTS; SEASONS;

EID: 80052519448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024579     Document Type: Article

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