Emerging infections: a perpetual challenge

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 710-719

  Morens, David M ^a   Folkers, Gregory K ^a   Fauci, Anthony S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTHRAX; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CATTLE DISEASE; CHOLERA; EMPORIATRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; MEASLES; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PESTILENTIAL DISEASE; PNEUMOMIC PLAQUE; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX; SYPHILIS; YELLOW FEVER;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 53949085778     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70256-1     Document Type: Review

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