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Defining Influenza-like Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Harunor Rashid  and
Shafquat M. Rafiq
Harunor Rashid*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Child Health, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Shafquat M. Rafiq
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, St. Helier's Hospital, Surrey, United Kingdom
*
Academic Department of Child Health, Queen Mary University of London, 38 New Road, London El 2AX, United Kingdom (h.rashid@qmul.ac.uk)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , pp. 1285 - 1286
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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