Tracking the global express: New tools addressing disease threats across the world

Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 769-771

  Fuller, Sherrilynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; THREAT; WEB BROWSER;

DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77958500351     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181f56757     Document Type: Short Survey

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