Epidemiology: Dimensions of superspreading

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7066, 2005, Pages 293-295

  Galvani, Alison P ^a   May, Robert M ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTACT-TRACING DATA; INFECTIOUSNESS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EBOLA VIRUS;

EID: 27844590844     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/438293a     Document Type: Short Survey

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