Lessons from a one-year hospital-based surveillance of acute respiratory infections in Berlin- comparing case definitions to monitor influenza
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in sentinel hospitals is recommended to estimate the burden of severe influenza-cases. Therefore, we monitored patients admitted with respiratory infections (RI) in 9 Berlin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Public Health |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/245 |