Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 6146-6151

  Fraser, Christophe ^a   Riley, Steven ^a   Anderson, Roy M ^a   Ferguson, Neil M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; HIV; Influenza; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Smallpox

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLICATION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT ISOLATION; VIRUS DISEASES;

CORONAVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SARS CORONAVIRUS; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 1942501653     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307506101     Document Type: Article

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