What we are watching-five top global infectious disease threats, 2012: A perspective from CDC's global disease detection operations center

Emerging Health Threats Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Christian, Kira A ^a   Ijaz, Kashef ^a   Dowell, Scott F ^a   Chow, Catherine C ^a   Chitale, Rohit A ^a,e   Bresee, Joseph S ^b   Mintz, Eric ^c   Pallansch, Mark A ^b   Wassilak, Steven ^a   McCray, Eugene ^d   Arthur, Ray R ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CDC; Disease detection; Emergency response; Epidemic intelligence; Epidemiology; Global health

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA A (H7N9); CHOLERA; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; ENTEROVIRUS 17 INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N9; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BIRD; CDC; DISEASE SCREENING; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH; INFECTION CONTROL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

CDC; DISEASE DETECTION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH;

ANIMALS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BIRDS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84881089444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17528550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.20632     Document Type: Article

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