Lessons learnt in Europe on tuberculosis surveillance, outbreaks and BCG vaccination in 2011.

نویسندگان

  • Marieke J van der Werf
  • Francesco Blasi
  • Johan Giesecke
  • Giovanni Battista Migliori
چکیده

O nly a few European scientific journals publish articles on respiratory infectious diseases and tuberculosis (TB). The European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) and Eurosurveillance are two examples with a different focus. Eurosurveillance, which is published by, but editorially independent from, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is a European peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases, with a focus on topics that are of relevance to Europe.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 41 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013