Using a spatial filter and a geographic information system to improve rabies surveillance data

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 603-606

  Curtis, Andrew ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIZOOTIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; NONHUMAN; RABIES; RACCOON; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032696492     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0505.990501     Document Type: Review

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