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Influenza and school-based influenza-like illness surveillance: a pilot initiative in Maryland
Geoffrey B Crawford1, Sara McKelvey, Janet Crooks
1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Baltimore, USA.
Public Health Reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
|August 2, 2011
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