Influenza not MERS CoV among returning Hajj and Umrah pilgrims with respiratory illness, Kashmir, north India, 2014–15

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 45-47

  Koul, Parvaiz A ^a   Mir, Hyder ^a   Saha, Siddhartha ^b   Chadha, Mandeep S ^c   Potdar, Varsha ^c   Widdowson, Marc Alain ^b   Lal, Renu B ^b   Krishnan, Anand ^d  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

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

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infection; Hajj; Middle East Respiratory Virus syndrome; Pilgrimage

Indexed keywords

OSELTAMIVIR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; ISLAM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NASOPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; TRAVEL; ACUTE DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISLAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NASOPHARYNX; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 85008152000     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.12.002     Document Type: Article

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