Fatal cases associated with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) reported in Greece

PLoS Currents

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Athanasiou, Maria ^a   Lytras, Theodore ^a   Spala, Georgia ^a   Triantafyllou, Eleni ^a   Gkolfinopoulou, Kassiani ^a   Theocharopoulos, Georgios ^a   Patrinos, Stavros ^d   Danis, Kostas ^a   Detsis, Marios ^a   Tsiodras, Sotirios ^b   Bonovas, Stefanos ^d   Panagiotopoulos, Takis ^a,c  

^a Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^d NONE

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EID: 80052762239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.RRN1194     Document Type: Article

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