Towards global health security: Response to the May 2018 Nipah virus outbreak linked to Pteropus bats in Kerala, India

BMJ Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Sadanadan, Rajeev ^a   Arunkumar, Govindakarnavar ^b   Laserson, Kayla F ^c   Heretik, Katherine Hartman ^c   Singh, Sujeet ^d   Mourya, Devendra T ^e,f   Gangakhedkar, Raman R ^f   Gupta, Nivedita ^f   Sharma, Rajeev ^c   Dhuria, Meera ^d   Jain, Sudhir Kumar ^d   Nichol, Stuart ^g   Gupta, Promila ^d   Bhargava, Balram ^f  

^a GOVERNMENT OF KERALA   (India)

^b MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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

^d GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^f INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

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

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EID: 85061806082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20597908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001086     Document Type: Note

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