The age distribution of mortality due to influenza: pandemic and peri-pandemic

BACKGROUND: Pandemic influenza is said to 'shift mortality' to younger age groups; but also to spare a subpopulation of the elderly population. Does one of these effects dominate? Might this have important ramifications? METHODS: We estimated age-specific excess mortality rates for all-yea...

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Autores principales: Reichert, Tom, Chowell, Gerardo, McCullers, Jonathan A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23234604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-162

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23234604
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-162

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