Contact tracing and disease control

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1533, 2003, Pages 2565-2571

  Eames, Ken T D ^a   Keeling, Matt J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pairwise approximations; Stochastic simulation; Tracing efficiency; Transmission networks

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0345830673     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2554     Document Type: Article

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