Norovirus disease surveillance using google internet query share data

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Desai, Rishi ^a   Hall, Aron J ^a   Lopman, Benjamin A ^a   Shimshoni, Yair ^b   Rennick, Marcus ^c   Efron, Niv ^b   Matias, Yossi ^b   Patel, Manish M ^a   Parashar, Umesh D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c Boston Public Health Commissions   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET QUERY SHARE; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MASSACHUSETTS; NOROVIRUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866693729     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis579     Document Type: Article

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