Syndromic Surveillance and Bioterrorism-related Epidemics
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Syndromic Surveillance and Bioterrorism-related Epidemics
facilitate rapid detection of a future bioterrorist attack, an increasing number of public health departments are investing in new surveillance systems that target the early manifestations of bioterrorism-related disease. Whether this approach is likely to detect an epidemic sooner than reporting by alert clinicians remains unknown. The detection of a bioterrorism-related epidemic will depend o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.030231