Medical surveillance for biological terrorism agents

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 525-537

  Pavlin, Julie A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Evaluation; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 22244433190     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030590949627     Document Type: Article

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