Influenza surveillance during the post-pandemic influenza 2010/11 season in Greece, 04 October 2010 to 22 May 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 44, 2011, Pages

  Athanasiou, M ^a   Baka, A ^a   Andreopoulou, A ^a   Spala, G ^a   Karageorgou, K ^a   Kostopoulos, L ^a   Patrinos, S ^a   Sideroglou, T ^a   Triantafyllou, E ^a   Mentis, A ^b   Malisiovas, N ^c   Lytras, T ^a   Tsiodras, S ^a,d   Panagiotopoulos, T ^a,e   Bonovas, S ^a  

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

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GREECE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY SURVEILLANCE; PANDEMIC; PNEUMONIA; POST PANDEMIC; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VIROLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 80455128722     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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