Incidence and risk factors for influenza-like-illness in the UK: Online surveillance using Flusurvey

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Adler, Alma J ^a   Eames, Ken T D ^a   Funk, Sebastian ^a   Edmunds, W J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Influenza; Online surveillance; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILL; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LOSS OF APPETITE; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEWBORN; RHINORRHEA; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SNEEZING; SORE THROAT; SPUTUM DISCOLORATION; STOMACH PAIN; THORAX PAIN; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; VOMITING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900864071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-232     Document Type: Article

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