Control measures used during lymphogranuloma venereum outbreak, Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 573-578

  Timen, Aura ^a,b   Hulscher, Marlies E J L ^c   Vos, Dieuwke ^a,b   Van De Laar, Marita J W ^a,d   Fenton, Kevin A ^e   Van Steenbergen, Jim E ^a   Van Der Meer, Jos W M ^c   Grol, Richard P T M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of the city of Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 42049117849     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1404.061583     Document Type: Article

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