Predicting Influenza Infections during Epidemics with Use of a Clinical Case Definition
Open Access
- 15 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (5), 1166-1169
- https://doi.org/10.1086/317425
Abstract
Combined pharyngeal and nasal swab specimens were collected from 100 subjects who presented with a flu-like illness (fever>37.8°C plus 2 of 4 symptoms: cough, myalgia, sore throat, and headache) of 38°C) and cough for the diagnosis of influenza infection during this flu season were 86.8%, 39.3%, 77.6%, and 55.0%, respectively.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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