Laboratory Surveillance of Influenza-Like Illness in Seven Teaching Hospitals, South Korea: 2011-2012 Season

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Noh, Ji Yun ^a   Song, Joon Young ^a   Cheong, Hee Jin ^a   Choi, Won Suk ^a,b   Lee, Jacob ^c   Lee, Jin Soo ^d   Wie, Seong Heon ^e   Jeong, Hye Won ^f   Kim, Young Keun ^g   Choi, Sung Hyuk ^h   Han, Seung Baik ^d   So, Byung Hak ^e   Kim, Hyun ^g   Kim, Woo Joo ^a,i  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Hallym University   (South Korea)

^d Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^h Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

ⁱ Transgovernmental Enterprise for Pandemic Influenza   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BOCAVIRUS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH KOREA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84878101881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064295     Document Type: Article

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