Border screening for SARS

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-10

  St John, Ronald K ^a,b   King, Arlene ^a   De Jong, Dick ^a   Bodie Collins, Margaret ^a   Squires, Susan G ^a   Tam, Theresa W S ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MASS SCREENING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; VIRUS DETECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 11844304315     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1101.040835     Document Type: Article

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