Infectious disease surveillance and modelling across geographic frontiers and scientific specialties

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 222-230

  Khan, Kamran ^a,b,d   McNabb, Scott J N ^c   Memish, Ziad A ^d,e,f   Eckhardt, Rose ^b   Hu, Wei ^b   Kossowsky, David ^b   Sears, Jennifer ^b   Arino, Julien ^f   Johansson, Anders ^g,h   Barbeschi, Maurizio ^d,i   McCloskey, Brian ^d,j   Henry, Bonnie ^d,k   Cetron, Martin ^l   Brownstein, John S ^i,m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^e ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^j PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^k BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

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

^m BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CROWDING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; MASS GATHERING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; THREAT; TRAVEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROWDING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84857189162     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70313-9     Document Type: Review

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