The importance of militaries from developing countries in global infectious disease surveillance

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 174-180

  Chretien, Jean Paul ^a   Blazes, David L ^b   Coldren, Rodney L ^c   Lewis, Michael D ^d   Gaywee, Jariyanart ^c   Kana, Khunakorn ^c   Sirisopana, Narongrid ^c   Vallejos, Victor ^b   Mundaca, Carmen C ^b   Montano, Silvia ^b   Martin, Gregory J ^b   Gaydos, Joel C ^a  

^a Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System ^*  (United States)

^b Virology Program   (Peru)

^c ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE CONTROL; FOREIGN POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PEACEKEEPING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MILITARY SERVICE; PERU; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; THAILAND;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947186192     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.037101     Document Type: Review

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