Infectious diseases prioritisation for event-based surveillance at the European Union level for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Economopoulou, A ^a   Kinross, P ^a   Domanovic, D ^a   Coulombier, D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DELPHI STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; LONDON; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORTS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84898884908     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.15.20770     Document Type: Article

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