Contagious diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 2152-2158

  Van Panhuis, Willem G ^a   Grefenstette, John ^a   Jung, Su Yon ^a   Chok, Nian Shong ^a   Cross, Anne ^a   Eng, Heather ^a   Lee, Bruce Y ^b   Zadorozhny, Vladimir ^c   Brown, Shawn ^a   Cummings, Derek ^d   Burke, Donald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; MEASLES; MUMPS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMALLPOX; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTORY; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; TRENDS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INCIDENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888337168     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms1215400     Document Type: Article

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