More than a “touch of the flu”: a response to Mayrhuber et al’s ““with fever it’s the real flu I would say”: laypersons’ perception of common cold and influenza and their differences - a qualitative study in Austria, Belgium and Croatia”

Abstract This short reply contests two assumptions made by the authors of Mayrhuber et al’s. “With fever it’s the real flu I would say.” The first is that there is influenza can be reliably defined by a medical case definition. The second is that this small qualitative study can be generalisable. Ho...

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Main Author: Annemarie Jutel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-4437-x