Plagues and peoples revisited. Basic and strategic research for infectious disease control at the interface of the life, health and social sciences

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages

  Sommerfeld, Johannes ^a  

^a Special Prog Res/Train Trop Dis   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; GENE TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIC; GENE CONSTRUCT; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; MALARIA; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; TROPICAL DISEASE; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH; HUMANS; INFECTION; RESEARCH SUPPORT;

EID: 0037777630     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor845     Document Type: Article

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