Infectious Disease Surveillance Among Deployed Military Personnel: Needs and Opportunities for Real‐Time Febrile Illness Surveillance
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Travel Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1195-1982,1708-8305
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12033