Revision of clinical case definitions: Influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory infection;Révision de définitions de cas cliniques: Syndrome de type grippal et infection aigüe sévère des voies respiratoires;Revisión de las definiciones de los casos clínicos: Enfermedad similar a la gripe e infección respiratoria aguda grave

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 122-128

  Fitzner, Julia ^a   Qasmieh, Saba ^a   Mounts, Anthony Wayne ^a   Alexander, Burmaa ^b   Besselaar, Terry ^a   Briand, Sylvie ^a   Brown, Caroline ^a   Clark, Seth ^a   Dueger, Erica ^a   Gross, Diane ^a   Hauge, Siri ^c   Hirve, Siddhivinayak ^a   Jorgensen, Pernille ^a   Katz, Mark A ^d   Mafi, Ali ^a   Malik, Mamunur ^a   McCarron, Margaret ^d   Meerhoff, Tamara ^e   Mori, Yuichiro ^a   Mott, Joshua ^d   Olivera, Maria Teresa da Costa ^f   Ortiz, Justin R ^a   Palekar, Rakhee ^a   Rebelo De Andrade, Helena ^g   Soetens, Loes ^h   Yahaya, Ali Ahmed ^a   Zhang, Wenqing ^a   Vandemaele, Katelijn ^a   more..

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b National Centre for Communicable Diseases   (Mongolia)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

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

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Municipal Health Secretariat of Belo Horizonte   (Brazil)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TREND ANALYSIS; VIRUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); PRESCRIPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CHILD; COUGHING; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 85041512363     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.17.194514     Document Type: Article

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