Eight Years of the Great Influenza Survey to Monitor Influenza-Like Illness in Flanders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Vandendijck, Yannick ^a   Faes, Christel ^a   Hens, Niel ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIAN SENTINEL NETWORK; BELGIUM; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GOOGLE FLU TRENDS; GREAT INFLUENZA SURVEY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; TREND STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; PROCEDURES;

BELGIUM; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84877842601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064156     Document Type: Article

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