Role of China in the quest to define and control severe acute respiratory syndrome - Perspectives

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Sept, 2003 by Robert F. Breiman, Meirion R. Evans, Wolfgang Preiser, James Maguire, Alan Schnur, Ailan Li, Henk Bekedam, John S. MacKenzie

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Dr. Breiman is head of the Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh-Centre for Health and Population Research in Bangladesh. His research focuses on evaluating new vaccines for use in developing countries and on the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases. Previously he directed the United States National Vaccine Program Office and was chief of the Epidemiology Section of the Childhood and Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Address for correspondence: Robert F. Breiman, Associate Director and Head, Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division, ICDDR, B-Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; fax: 880-2-882-3963; email: breiman@icddrb.org

Robert F. Breiman, * Meirion R. Evans, ([dagger]) Wolfgang Preiser, ([double dagger]) James Maguire, ([section]) Alan Schnur, ([paragraph] Ailan Li, ([paragraph]) Henk Bekedam, ([paragraph]) and John S. MacKenzi (#)(1)

* International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh-Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ([dagger]) National Public Health Service for Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom; ([double dagger]) Institute for Medical Virology, Frankfurt, Germany, ([section]) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ([paragraph]) World Health Organization, Beijing, China; and (#) University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1) Drs. Breiman, Evans, Preiser, Maguire, and MacKenzie were consultants for the World Health Organization, assisting its Beijing office.