Timeliness of contact tracing among flight passengers for influenza A/H1N1 2009

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Swaan, Corien M ^a   Appels, Rolf ^b   Kretzschmar, Mirjam E E ^a,c   van Steenbergen, Jim E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b GGD Kennemerland   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FLIGHT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AIRCRAFT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAVEL; VIROLOGY;

AIRCRAFT; CONTACT TRACING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84455193318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-355     Document Type: Article

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