Towards one health disease surveillance: The southern African Centre For Infectious Disease Surveillance approach

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Karimuribo, Esron D ^a   Sayalel, Kuya ^b,c   Beda, Eric ^a   Short, Nick ^d   Wambura, Philemon ^a   Mboera, Leonard G ^e   Kusiluka, Lughano J M ^c   Rweyemamu, Mark M ^a  

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

^b Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority   (Tanzania)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^d ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

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

EID: 84965091945     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: 22190635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/ojvr.v79i2.454     Document Type: Article

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