Quantifying Trends in Disease Impact to Produce a Consistent and Reproducible Definition of an Emerging Infectious Disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Funk, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Bogich, Tiffany L ^b,d,e   Jones, Kate E ^a,f   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^g   Daszak, Peter ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EMERGENCE; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; NOMENCLATURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84881499289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069951     Document Type: Review

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