Exploring a Proposed WHO Method to Determine Thresholds for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Tay, Ee Laine ^a,b   Grant, Kristina ^a   Kirk, Martyn ^b   Mounts, Anthony ^c   Kelly, Heath ^a,b  

^a Vic Infect Dis Ref Laboratory   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; PANDEMIC; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84885415022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077244     Document Type: Article

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