Host and environmental factors reducing mortality during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1425-1430

  Paynter, S ^a   Ware, R S ^a   Shanks, G D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case control studies; cohort studies; environment; immunity; influenza; mortality; pandemic; susceptibility; transmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RISK; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PANDEMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80053099805     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000367     Document Type: Article

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