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Readings for Surveillance & Control
1. Langmuir, A. 1963.
The surveillance of communicable disease of national
importance. New England Journal of Medicine 268:182-192.
2. Kitron, U. 1989.
Integrated disease management of tropical infectious diseases.
In: International Cooperation for Health: problems,
prospects, and priorities
(Eds. MR Reich & E. Marui), pp. 234-263. Read:
pp. 235-243. Scan rest.
3. Berkelman, R., Bryan,
R., Osterholm, M., LeDuc, J. and Hughes, J. 1994.
Infectious disease surveillance: A crumbling
foundation. Science 264:368-370.
4. Pinner RW et al. 1996.
Trends in Infectious Diseases Mortality in the United States.
JAMA 275: 189-193.
5. Tauxe, R et al. 1995.
Epidemic cholera in the New World: Translating field
epidemiology into new prevention strategies.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 1:141-6.
Background readings:
1.Martin S, Meek A &
Willeberg P. 1987. Monitoring disease and production, Ch 11. In:
Veterinary Epidemiology: Principles and Methods, :Iowa
State Univ Press. 259-82.
2. Smith, C. E. G. 1982.
Practical problems in the control of infectious diseases.
In: Population Biology of Infectious Diseases
(eds: May, RM & RM Anderson),
New York:Springer-Verlag, pp: 177-1
3. Teutsch, SM & SB Thacker.
1995. Planning a public health surveillance system.
PAHO Epidemiological Bulletin 16, 1:1- 6.
4. Thrusfield, M. 1986. The
control of disease.In: Veterinary Epidemiology.
Boston: Butterworth-Heineman Ltd. pp.215-225.