Surveillance for travel-related disease - GeoSentinel surveillance system, United States, 1997-2011

MMWR Surveillance Summaries

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Harvey, Kira ^a   Esposito, Douglas H ^a   Han, Pauline ^a   Kozarsky, Phyllis ^a   Freedman, David O ^b   Adam Plier, D ^b   Sotir, Mark J ^a  

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

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

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EID: 84899825430     PISSN: 15460738     EISSN: 15458636     Source Type: Journal    
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