Zika in Singapore: Insights from one health and social medicine

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 528-529

  Lysaght, Tamra ^a   Lee, Tsung Ling ^a   Watson, Sangeetha ^a   Lederman, Zohar ^a   Bailey, Michele ^a   Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; FOREIGN WORKER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NONHUMAN; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL MEDICINE; ZIKA FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; RISK; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; RISK; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL MEDICINE; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84996536247     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2016161     Document Type: Editorial

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