Animals as early detectors of bioevents: Veterinary tools and a framework for animal-human integrated zoonotic disease surveillance

Public Health Reports

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-315

  Gubernot, Diane M ^a,b,d   Boyer, Benita L ^c   Moses, Marina S ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BOTULISM; BRUCELLOSIS; CHOLERA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FARM ANIMAL; GOVERNMENT; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; MELIOIDOSIS; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORNITHOSIS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SMALLPOX; TULAREMIA; TYPHOID FEVER; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOO ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 51149108315     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490812300310     Document Type: Article

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