Infectious Disease Modeling and Military Readiness

نویسندگان

  • Brian H. Feighner
  • Stephen Eubank
  • Robert J. Glass
  • Victoria J. Davey
  • Jean-Paul Chrétien
  • Joel C. Gaydos
چکیده

Brian H. Feighner, Stephen Eubank, Robert J. Glass, Victoria J. Davey, Jean-Paul Chrétien, and Joel C. Gaydos Author affiliations: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA (B.H. Feighner); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (S. Eubank); Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (R.J. Glass); US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA (V.J. Davey); Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (V.J. Davey); Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (J.-P. Chrétien); and US Department of Defense Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring (J.C. Gaydos)

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دوره 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009