Unexplained Deaths Due to Possibly Infectious Causes in the United States:
Defining the Problem and Designing Surveillance and Laboratory Approaches,
Bradley A. Perkins,* Jennifer M. Flood,† Richard Danila,‡ Robert C. Holman,*
Arthur L. Reingold,† Laura A. Klug,* Michael Virata,§ Paul R. Cieslak,¶ Sherif R.
Zaki,* Robert W. Pinner,* Rima F. Khabbaz,* and the Unexplained Deaths Working
Group#
*National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, USA, Atlanta, Georgia; School of Public Health, University of
California at Berkeley, California, USA;
Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; §Yale
University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; ¶Oregon Department
of Human Resources, Portland, Oregon, USA
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