Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Temporal stability and geographic variation in case-fatality rates and doubling times

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 991-994

  Galvani, Alison P ^a   Lei, Xiudong ^a   Jewell, Nicholas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMORBIDITY; CONTROL STRATEGY; DATA ANALYSIS; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; PARAMYXOVIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; THERMOSTABILITY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0042125491     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0908.030334     Document Type: Article

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