Recommendations for and compliance with social restrictions during implementation of school closures in the early phase of the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 outbreak in Melbourne, Australia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  McVernon, Jodie ^a   Mason, Kate ^b   Petrony, Sylvia ^b   Nathan, Paula ^a,b   LaMontagne, Anthony D ^b   Bentley, Rebecca ^b   Fielding, James ^c,d,e   Studdert, David M ^b,f   Kavanagh, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^e The Australian National University   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; OSELTAMIVIR;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; CHEMOPREVENTION; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; OSELTAMIVIR; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUARANTINE; SCHOOLS;

EID: 80053374160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-257     Document Type: Article

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