Mobile Phones As Surveillance Tools: Implementing and Evaluating a Large-Scale Intersectoral Surveillance System for Rabies in Tanzania.

نویسندگان

  • Zacharia Mtema
  • Joel Changalucha
  • Sarah Cleaveland
  • Martin Elias
  • Heather M Ferguson
  • Jo E B Halliday
  • Daniel T Haydon
  • Gurdeep Jaswant
  • Rudovick Kazwala
  • Gerry F Killeen
  • Tiziana Lembo
  • Kennedy Lushasi
  • Alpha D Malishee
  • Rebecca Mancy
  • Matthew Maziku
  • Eberhard M Mbunda
  • Geofrey J M Mchau
  • Roderick Murray-Smith
  • Kristyna Rysava
  • Khadija Said
  • Maganga Sambo
  • Elizabeth Shayo
  • Lwitiko Sikana
  • Sunny E Townsend
  • Honorathy Urassa
  • Katie Hampson
چکیده

Katie Hampson and colleagues describe their experience of developing and deploying a large-scale rabies surveillance system based on mobile phones in southern Tanzania.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • PLoS medicine

دوره 13 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016