A new method to estimate the basic reproductive number of diseases (R 0): An application to the study of dengue epidemics in the Federal District of Brazil;Une nouvelle méthode d'estimation du taux de reproduction des maladies (R0): Application à l'étude des épidémies de dengue dans le District Fédéral (Brésil)

Environnement, Risques et Sante

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-135

  Degallier, Nicolas ^a   Favier, Charly ^a   Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^b   Menkes, Christophe Eugène ^a   Oliveira, Cristiane ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c DIVAL/SES DF   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological; Brazil; Dengue; Disease outbreaks; Epidemiology; Insect vectors; Models

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MODEL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN;

EID: 17444420166     PISSN: 16350421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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