Using syndromic surveillance systems to detect pneumonic plague

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Babin, S M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Emerging infections; Pneumonic plague; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS NONHUMAN DATA; INCUBATION TIME; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT; GUINEA PIG; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CATS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; PLAGUE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RATS;

EID: 73349123466     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809990689     Document Type: Review

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