Surveillance-response systems: The key to elimination of tropical diseases

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tambo, Ernest ^a,b,c   Ai, Lin ^a,c   Zhou, Xia ^a,d   Chen, Jun Hu ^a,c   Hu, Wei ^a,e   Bergquist, Robert ^f   Guo, Jia Gang ^a,g   Utzinger, Jürg ^h,i   Tanner, Marcel ^h,i   Zhou, Xiao Nong ^a,c  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^d SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f World Health Organization ^*  (Sweden)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

China; Control; Elimination; Global health; Surveillance response system; Tropical diseases

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; DISEASE CLEARANCE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALARIA; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TELEHEALTH; TROPICAL DISEASE;

EID: 84988838477     PISSN: 20955162     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-3-17     Document Type: Review

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