Epidemiology, seasonality, and burden of influenza and influenza-like illness in Urban and Rural Kenya, 2007-2010

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Katz, Mark A ^a   Lebo, Emmaculate ^a   Emukule, Gideon ^a   Njuguna, Henry N ^a   Aura, Barrack ^a   Cosmas, Leonard ^a   Audi, Alan ^a   Junghae, Muthoni ^a   Waiboci, Lilian W ^a   Olack, Beatrice ^a   Bigogo, Godfrey ^a   Njenga, M K ^a   Feikin, Daniel R ^a   Breiman, Robert F ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; KENYA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; THROAT CULTURE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870009610     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis530     Document Type: Article

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