A procedure for differentiating between the intentional release of biological warfare agents and natural outbreaks of disease: Its use in analyzing the tularemia outbreak in Kosovo in 1999 and 2000

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 510-521

  Grunow, R ^a   Finke, E J ^a  

^a Sanitatsakademie der Bundeswehr   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial; Biological warfare agents; Differentiation; Epidemics; Intentional; Modelling; Natural; Outbreak; Tularemia

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARMY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISASTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MODEL; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TERRORISM; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES; YUGOSLAVIA;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

EID: 0036670996     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2002.00524.x     Document Type: Review

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