Emerging and reemerging infections: Progress and challenges in the subspecialty of infectious disease pathology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 776-784

  Schwartz, David A ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATHOLOGIST; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COCCIDIOSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030737804     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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