Effectiveness of border screening for detecting influenza in arriving airline travelers

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1412-1418

  Priest, Patricia C ^a   Jennings, Lance C ^b   Duncan, Alasdair R ^b   Brunton, Cheryl R ^b   Baker, Michael G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRCRAFT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHINITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL;

EID: 84880161145     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300761     Document Type: Article

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