Characteristics of patients with influenza-like illness, severe acture respiratory illness, and laboratory-confirmed influenza at a major children's hospital in Angola, 2009-2011

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Cardoso, Yolanda ^a,b   Oliveira, Erika ^a,b   Vasconcelos, Jocelyne ^a,b   Cohen, Adam L ^c   Francisco, Moises ^a,b  

^a Ministério da Saúde de Angola ^*  (Angola)

^b Instituto Nacional de Saúde Publica   (Angola)

^c Centers for Disease Control and Prevention South Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TREND STUDY; VIRUS TYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ANGOLA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; NASAL MUCOSA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

EID: 84870048918     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis534     Document Type: Article

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