High severity and fatality of human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) infection in China

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1506-1507

  Ke, Yuehua ^a   Wang, Yufei ^a   Liu, Shiwei ^b   Guo, Jinpeng ^a   Zhang, Wenyi ^a   Yuan, Xitong ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Wang, Zhoujia ^a   Song, Hongbin ^a   Huang, Liuyu ^a   Chen, Zeliang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b WANGJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA A (H7N9); AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA A (H7N7); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N9; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N9 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84883499043     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit371     Document Type: Letter

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