Hispanic Latin America, Spain and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: A rich source of reference material for public health, epidemiology and tropical medicine

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Williams, John R ^a   Bórquez, Annick ^a   Basáñez, María Gloria ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centro Amazonico para la Investigacion y Control de las Enfermedades Tropicales 'Simon Bolivar'   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; EPIDEMIC; HISPANIC; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; SPAIN; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 54249118898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-5-17     Document Type: Review

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