Future infectious disease threats to Europe

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2068-2079

  Suk, Jonathan E ^a   Semenza, Jan C ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; METHODOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE VECTORS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMICS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 80055007035     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300181     Document Type: Article

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