Influenza circulation in United States Army training camps before and during the 1918 influenza pandemic: Clues to early detection of pandemic viral emergence

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Chertow, Daniel S ^a   Cai, Rongman ^a   Sun, Junfeng ^a   Grantham, John ^a   Taubenberger, Jeffery K ^a   Morens, David M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

1918 influenza; Epidemiology; Military; Pandemic influenza; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; DEATH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FATALITY; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALAISE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONSILLITIS; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978327771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv021     Document Type: Article

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