Results from the first six years of national sentinel surveillance for influenza in Kenya, July 2007-June 2013

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Katz, Mark A ^a   Muthoka, Philip ^b   Emukule, Gideon O ^a   Kalani, Rosalia ^b   Njuguna, Henry ^a   Waiboci, Lilian W ^a   Ahmed, Jamal A ^a   Bigogo, Godfrey ^a   Feikin, Daniel R ^a   Njenga, Moses K ^a   Breiman, Robert F ^a   Mott, Joshua A ^a  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; GRUNTING; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; KENYA; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NASAL FLARING; NASOPHARYNGEAL SWAB; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; NOSE DISEASE; OROPHARYNGEAL SWAB; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SORE THROAT; STRIDOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903650077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098615     Document Type: Article

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