Surveillance and response to disease emergence

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 315, Issue , 2007, Pages 477-509

  Merianos, Angela ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL DISEASE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIOSAFETY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVESTOCK; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; METHODOLOGY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 34748875952     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70962-6_19     Document Type: Review

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