Ten years (2004-2014) of influenza surveillance in Northern Italy

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 198-205

  Pariani, Elena ^a,b   Amendola, Antonella ^a,b   Piatti, Alessandra ^c   Anselmi, Giovanni ^a   Ranghiero, Alberto ^a   Bubba, Laura ^a   Rosa, Anna Maria ^c   Pellegrinelli, Laura ^a   Binda, Sandro ^a   Coppola, Liliana ^c   Gramegna, Maria ^c   Zanetti, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Directorate General for Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Influenza surveillance network; Influenza vaccination; Influenza virus; Phylogeny; Vaccine coverage

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PREVALENCE; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949115673     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.35863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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