Modelling the spread of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in day-care and evaluation of intervention

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 3593-3607

  Andersson, Mikael ^a,d   Ekdahl, Karl ^a   Mölstad, Sigvard ^b   Persson, Kristina ^c   Hansson, Hans Bertil ^c   Giesecke, Johan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Primary Health Care   (Sweden)

^c Regional Centre of Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disease intervention; Epidemic model; Infectious disease; Pneumococci; Stochastic process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAY CARE; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAMPLE SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN;

BIOMETRY; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN;

EID: 28244491459     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2199     Document Type: Article

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