Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges--Finding Solutions: Workshop Summary

by P. Frederick Sparling, Stanley M. Lemon, Margaret A. Hamburg, et al.

Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced. Containing the spread of such diseases in a profoundly interconnected world requires active vigilance for signs of an outbreak, rapid recognition of its presence, and diagnosis of its microbial cause, in addition to strategies and resources for an appropriate and efficient response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309111145
• ISBN13: 9780309111140
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"