Airport arrivals screening during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in New South Wales, Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 200, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 290-292

  Gunaratnam, Praveena J ^a,b   Tobin, Sean ^a   Seale, Holly ^b   Marich, Andrew ^c   McAnulty, Jeremy ^a  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Mount Martha Village Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PANDEMIC; STATISTICS;

AIRPORTS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; NEW SOUTH WALES; PANDEMICS;

EID: 84899920430     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.10832     Document Type: Article

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