Mobile technologies for disease surveillance in humans and animals

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Mwabukusi, Mpoki ^a   Karimuribo, Esron D ^a,b   Rweyemamu, Mark M ^a   Beda, Eric ^a  

^a Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance   (Tanzania)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; WILD ANIMAL;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CELL PHONES; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 84908042322     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: 22190635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.737     Document Type: Article

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