Mortality Attributable to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza, Australia, 2003 to 2009, Using a Novel Time Series Smoothing Approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Muscatello, David J ^a   Newall, Anthony T ^a   Dwyer, Dominic E ^b   MacIntyre, C Raina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; WINTER; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VIROLOGY;

CERCOPITHECINE HERPESVIRUS 1;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PANDEMICS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878625672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064734     Document Type: Article

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