Cohort Profile: The Flu Watch Study

Overview

Journal Int J Epidemiol

Specialty Public Health

Date 2016 Mar 5

PMID 26940466

Citations 17

Authors

Ellen B Fragaszy

Charlotte Warren-Gash

Lili Wang

Andrew Copas

Oliver Dukes

W John Edmunds

Nilu Goonetilleke

Gabrielle Harvey

Anne M Johnson

Jana Kovar

Megan Sc Lim

Andrew McMichael

Elizabeth Rc Millett

Irwin Nazareth

Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam

Faiza Tabassum

John M Watson

Fatima Wurie

Maria Zambon

Andrew C Hayward

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