Emerging and reemerging diseases: A historical perspective

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-26

  Snowden, Frank M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging diseases; Epidemics; Infectious diseases; Reemerging diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AVOPARCIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; VACCINE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHOLERA; COMMENSALISM; DENGUE; ERADICATION THERAPY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBANIZATION; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLAGUE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 52049089447     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2008.00677.x     Document Type: Review

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