Analysis of YouTube as a source of information for West Nile Virus Infection

Clinical Medicine and Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 129-132

  Dubey, Divyanshu ^a   Amritphale, Amod ^b   Sawhney, Anshudha ^c   Dubey, Devashish ^d   Srivastav, Nupur ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NSCB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d Department of Neurology   (India)

^e SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Infection; West nile virus; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIDEORECORDING; WEST NILE FEVER;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VIDEO RECORDING; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 84922341389     PISSN: 15394182     EISSN: 15546179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3121/cmr.2013.1194     Document Type: Article

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