Epidemiological research priorities for public health control of the ongoing global novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

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¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

Benjamin J Cowling et al. Euro Surveill. 2020 Feb.

. 2020 Feb;25(6):2000110.

doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.6.2000110. Epub 2020 Feb 11.

¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

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Keywords: 2019-nCoV, coronavirus, emerging infections, response, air-borne infections; emerging or re-emerging diseases; viral infections.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: None declared.

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