Sentinel surveillance for influenza in Senegal, 1996-2009

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Niang, Mbayame Ndiaye ^a   Dosseh, Annick ^a   Ndiaye, Kader ^a   Sagna, Monique ^a   Gregory, Victoria ^b   Goudiaby, Deborah ^a   Hay, Alan ^b   Diop, Ousmane M ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA C; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENEGAL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY FLUIDS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENEGAL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; VIRUS CULTIVATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870035144     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis576     Document Type: Article

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