Aeromedical evacuation of biological warfare casualties: A treatise on infectious diseases on aircraft

Military Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2000, Pages 1-21

  Withers, Mark R ^a   Christopher, George W ^b  

^a USAF   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; LEGAL ASPECT; MEASLES; MILITARY MEDICINE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SMALLPOX; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

EID: 0033747342     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/165.suppl_3.1     Document Type: Article

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