The construction and analysis of epidemic trees with reference to the 2001 UK foot-and-mouth outbreak

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1511, 2003, Pages 121-127

  Haydon, D T ^a   Chase Topping, M ^b   Shaw, D J ^b   Matthews, L ^b   Friar, J K ^c   Wilesmith, J ^d,e   Woolhouse, M E J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Eoscene Corporation   (United States)

^d VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Case reproduction ratio; Contact network; Epidemic; Foot and mouth disease; Genealogy

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; MODELING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; GENEALOGY; INFECTION RATE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037460207     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2191     Document Type: Article

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