Fifty-five years of international epidemic-assistance investigations conducted by CDC's disease detectives

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 174, Issue SUPPL. 11, 2011, Pages

  Rolle, Italia V ^a   Pearson, Michele L ^b   Nsubuga, Peter ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); epidemics; epidemiologic methods; world health; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PATHOGENICITY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TERRITORY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CONTROL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAINING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; UNITED STATES;

CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 82955242404     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwr312     Document Type: Article

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