What We Are Watching-Top Global Infectious Disease Threats, 2013-2016: An Update from CDC's Global Disease Detection Operations Center

Health Security

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 453-462

  Christian, Kira A ^a   Iuliano, A Danielle ^b   Uyeki, Timothy M ^b   Mintz, Eric D ^c   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Rollin, Pierre ^c   Staples, J Erin ^c   Arthur, Ray R ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Epidemic management response; Infectious diseases; Surveillance; Viral hemorrhagic fevers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; YELLOW FEVER; ZIKA FEVER;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; POLIOMYELITIS; UNITED STATES; YELLOW FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85032291595     PISSN: 23265094     EISSN: 23265108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hs.2017.0004     Document Type: Article

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