Automated, laboratory-based system using the Internet for disease outbreak detection, the Netherlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1046-1052

  Widdowson, Marc Alain ^a,b,c   Bosman, Arnold ^b   Van Straten, Edward ^b   Tinga, Mark ^b   Chaves, Sandra ^b   Van Eerden, Liesbeth ^b   Van Pelt, Wilfred ^b  

^a Europ Prog Interv Epidemiol/T   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0041816101     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.020450     Document Type: Review

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