Detecting bioterror attacks by screening blood donors: A best-case analysis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 909-914

  Kaplan, Edward H ^a   Patton, Christopher A ^b   FitzGerald, William P ^b   Wein, Lawrence M ^c  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; MARBURG VIRUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SMALLPOX VIRUS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0042125575     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0908.030079     Document Type: Review

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