Surveillance for Waterborne-Disease Outbreaks - United States, 1995-1996

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 5, 1998, Pages 1-20

  Levy, Deborah A ^b   Bens, Michelle S ^b   Craun, Gunther F ^a   Calderon, Rebecca L ^b   Herwaldt, Barbara L ^b  

^a Gunther F Craun and Associates   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; SWIMMING POOL; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; SWIMMING POOLS; UNITED STATES; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0032509166     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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