Emerging infections: a perpetual challenge
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Emerging infections: a perpetual challenge.
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, and their determinants, have recently attracted substantial scientific and popular attention. HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, H5N1 avian influenza, and many other emerging diseases have either proved fatal or caused international alarm. Common and interactive co-determinants of disease emergence, including population growth, travel, and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1473-3099
DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(08)70256-1