Seasonal influenza: The burden of disease in children

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 7524-7528

  Fraaij, Pieter L A ^a   Heikkinen, Terho ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Children; Epidemiology; Influenza; Respiratory tract; Virus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; OSELTAMIVIR;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ABSENTEEISM; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHINA; CONSULTATION; COUGHING; CROUP; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INTENSIVE CARE; LEIGH DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; LOGE SYNDROME; LUNG INJURY; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MALAISE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYALGIA; MYELITIS; MYELITIS TRANSVERSA; MYOCARDITIS; MYOGLOBINURIA; MYOSITIS; NEWBORN APNEA; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; REYE SYNDROME; RHINORRHEA; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SEPSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; SPANISH INFLUENZA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; SUDDEN DEATH; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WEATHER;

EID: 80053452572     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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