Estimated incidence of influenza-virus-associated severe pneumonia in children in El Salvador, 2008-2010;Incidence estimée des pneumonies sévères associées au virus de l'Influenza chez les enfants d'El salvador, de 2008 à 2010

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 756-763

  Clara, Wilfrido ^a   Armero, Julio ^b   Rodriguez, David ^b   de Lozano, Celina ^b   Bonilla, Luis ^c   Minaya, Percy ^d   Chacón, Rafael ^e   Jara, Jorge ^c   Blanco, Natalia ^c   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^a   Bresee, Joseph ^a   Xu, Xiyan ^a   Klimov, Alexander ^a   Azziz Baumgartner, Eduardo ^a   Linares Perez, Nivaldo ^a  

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

^b Ministry of Health   (United States)

^c Universidad del Valle   (United States)

^d Training of Epidemiology and Public Health Intervention Network   (United States)

^e Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH CARE; INFLUENZA; PNEUMONIA; VACCINATION;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG FORMULATION; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS ASSOCIATED SEVERE PNEUMONIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE SMEAR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS STRAIN;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MUCUS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; SALVADORIA;

EID: 84867114094     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.098202     Document Type: Article

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