New variants and age shift to high fatality groups contribute to severe successive waves in the 2009 influenza pandemic in Taiwan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Ji Rong ^a   Huang, Yuan Pin ^a   Chang, Feng Yee ^a   Hsu, Li Ching ^a   Lin, Yu Cheng ^a   Su, Chun Hui ^a   Chen, Pei Jer ^b   Wu, Ho Sheng ^a,c   Liu, Ming Tsan ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FATALITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; VIRUS CULTURE;

EID: 84983726640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028288     Document Type: Article

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