War and Infectious Diseases: Challenges of the Syrian Civil War

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Sharara, Sima L ^a   Kanj, Souha S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; MEASLES; POLIOMYELITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; VACCINATION; VIOLENCE; WAR; EPIDEMIC; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; WARFARE;

EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MEASLES; POLIOMYELITIS; SYRIA; WARFARE;

EID: 85047994335     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004438     Document Type: Article

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