Anthropological Approaches to Outbreak Investigations in Bangladesh

When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-224

  Parveen, Shahana ^a   Sultana, Rebeca ^a   Luby, Stephen P ^a,b   Gurley, Emily S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropological investigation; Bangladesh; Multidisciplinary team; Nipah virus transmission; Outbreak; Pufferfish poisoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902930685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415921-1.00019-1     Document Type: Chapter

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