The temporal trend of influenza-associated morbidity and the impact of early appearance of antigenic drifted strains in a Southeast Asian country

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lian, Ie Bin ^a   Wu, Hong Dar Isaac ^b   Chang, Wan Tzu ^a   Chao, Day Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SOCIAL STATUS; TAIWAN; TREND STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS STRAIN;

AGED; AGING; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; SEASONS; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897438376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084239     Document Type: Article

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