Linkages between animal and human health sentinel data

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Scotch, Matthew ^a   Odofin, Lynda ^b   Rabinowitz, Peter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 66149140268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-5-15     Document Type: Editorial

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