The long-term dynamics of tuberculosis and other diseases with long serial intervals: Implications of and for changing reproduction numbers

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-324

  Vynnycky, E ^a   Fine, P E M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; SUPERINFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WALES;

EID: 0031785672     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268898001113     Document Type: Article

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