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Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888 to the Present

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Using data from digitized weekly surveillance reports of notifiable diseases for U.S. cities and states for 1888 through 2011, the authors derived a quantitative history of disease reduction in the United States, focusing particularly on the effects of vaccination programs.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

DOI: 10.1056/nejmms1215400

Authors: Willem G. van Panhuis, John Grefenstette, Su Yon Jung, Nian Shong Chok, Anne Cross, Heather Eng, Bruce Y. Lee, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Shawn Brown, Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Awards: G4393124834, Computational Models of Infectious Disease Threats

OpenAlex ID: W2011363487

FWCI: 20.39

Cites: 26

Cited by: 285

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