Disease surveillance among newly arriving refugees and immigrants - Electronic disease notification system, United States, 2009

MMWR Surveillance Summaries

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Deborah ^a   Philen, Rossanne ^a   Wang, Zanju ^a   McSpadden, Pamela ^a   Posey, Drew L ^a   Ortega, Luis S ^a   Weinberg, Michelle S ^a   Brown, Clive ^a   Zhou, Weigong ^a   Painter, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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EID: 84900561683     PISSN: 15460738     EISSN: 15458636     Source Type: Journal    
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