Building influenza surveillance pyramids in near real time, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1863-1865

  Dalton, Craig B ^a,b   Carlson, Sandra J ^a   Butler, Michelle T ^a   Elvidge, Elissa ^a   Durrheim, David N ^a,b  

^a HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL ADVICE; MEDICAL CARE;

DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUSES;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886994622     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1911.121878     Document Type: Article

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