Age-specific sex-related differences in infections: A statistical analysis of national surveillance data in japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Eshima, Nobuoki ^a   Tokumaru, Osamu ^a   Hara, Shohei ^b   Bacal, Kira ^c   Korematsu, Seigo ^a   Karukaya, Shigeru ^d   Uruma, Kiyo ^a   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^e   Matsuishi, Toyojiro ^d  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Editorial Bureau   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EXANTHEMA SUBITUM; FEMALE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HERPANGINA; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUMPS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VIRAL VACCINES; VIRUS DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 84864412936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042261     Document Type: Article

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