Media scanning and verification system as a supplemental tool to disease outbreak detection & reporting at National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-14

  Sharma, Rajeev ^a   Karad, A B ^b   Dash, B ^b   Dhariwal, A C ^c   Chauhan, L S ^d   Lal, S ^e  

^a Global Disease Detection Centre INDIA   (India)

^b IDSP   (India)

^c GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^d National Centre for Disease Control NCDC   (India)

^e Min of HandFW   (India)

Author keywords

Early warning Signals; IDSP; Media Scanning and Verification Cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889671446     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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