Descriptive epidemiology of school outbreaks of seasonal influenza B during 2012/2013 in the Thames Valley, United Kingdom

Public Health

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1121-1124

  McCann, L J ^a,b   Suchanek, O ^a   McCarthy, N D ^a   Mannes, T ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA; SEASONALITY;

ABSENTEEISM; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSERY SCHOOL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SCHOOL; SEASON;

ENGLAND; THAMES VALLEY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABSENTEEISM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SCHOOLS; SEASONS;

EID: 84919471810     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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