Changing patterns of infectious disease

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6797, 2000, Pages 762-767

  Cohen, Mitchell L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TECHNOLOGY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0034680096     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35021206     Document Type: Review

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