Effect of travel on influenza epidemiology

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 925-931

  Belderok, Sanne Meike ^a,b   Rimmelzwaan, Guus F ^c   van den Hoek, Anneke ^a,b   Sonder, Gerard J B ^a,b,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d National Coordination Center for Travelers Health Advice   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AMOXICILLIN; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ATTACK RATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAVEL; VIRUSES;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877938701     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1906.111864     Document Type: Article

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