Lessons learned from influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic response in Thailand

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1058-1064

  Ungchusak, Kumnuan ^a   Sawanpanyalert, Pathom ^a   Hanchoworakul, Wanna ^a   Sawanpanyalert, Narumol ^a   Maloney, Susan A ^b   Brown, Richard Clive ^c   Birmingham, Maureen Elizabeth ^c   Chusuttiwat, Supamit ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^b Centers for Disease Control CDC Thailand Field Station   (Thailand)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OSELTAMIVIR;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; DEATH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; REYE SYNDROME; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THAILAND; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SURGE CAPACITY; THAILAND; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84862529225     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1807.110976     Document Type: Review

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