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Int J Health Policy Manag. 2022;11(8): 1286-1300. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.13
PMID: 33904695        PMCID: PMC9808364

Literature Review

Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2001-2018

Ehsan Mostafavi 1 * ORCID, Abdolmajid Ghasemian 1 ORCID, Abubakar Abdinasir 2 ORCID, Seyed Alireza Nematollahi Mahani 1 ORCID, Salman Rawaf 3 ORCID, Mostafa Salehi Vaziri 4 ORCID, Mohammad Mahdi Gouya 5 ORCID, Tran Minh Nhu Nguyen 2, Salah Al Awaidy 6 ORCID, Lubna Al Ariqi 2 ORCID, Md. Mazharul Islam 7,8 ORCID, Elmoubasher Abu Baker Abd Farag 9 ORCID, Majdouline Obtel 10,11 ORCID, Peter Omondi Mala 2 ORCID, Ghassan M. Matar 12 ORCID, Rana Jawad Asghar 13,14 ORCID, Amal Barakat 2 ORCID, Mohammad Nadir Sahak 15 ORCID, Mariam Abdulmonem Mansouri 16,17 ORCID, Alexandra Swaka 3 ORCID

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