Excess mortality associated with influenza among tuberculosis deaths in South Africa, 1999-2009

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Walaza, Sibongile ^a,c   Cohen, Cheryl ^a,c   Nanoo, Ananta ^a   Cohen, Adam L ^b   McAnerney, Johanna ^a   Von Mollendorf, Claire ^a,c   Moyes, Jocelyn ^a,c   Tempia, Stefano ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA; WINTER; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUBERCULOSIS;

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84945954349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129173     Document Type: Article

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