Disease contact tracing in random and clustered networks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1570, 2005, Pages 1407-1414

  Kiss, Istvan Z ^a   Green, Darren M ^a   Kao, Rowland R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Contact structure; Contact tracing; Disease; Moment closure; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION; LATENT PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 24044463924     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3092     Document Type: Article

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