Increase in human infections with avian influenza a(H7N9) virus during the fifth Epidemic – China, October 2016–February 2017

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 254-255

  Danielle Iuliano, A ^a   Jang, Yunho ^a   Jones, Joyce ^a   Todd Davis, C ^a   Wentworth, David E ^a   Uyeki, Timothy M ^a   Roguski, Katherine ^a   Thompson, Mark G ^a   Gubareva, Larisa ^a   Fry, Alicia M ^a   Burns, Erin ^a   Trock, Susan ^a   Zhou, Suizan ^a   Katz, Jacqueline M ^a   Jernigan, Daniel B ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CHINA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H7N9); INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POULTRY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N9 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POULTRY; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 85015602310     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6609e2     Document Type: Note

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