Delaying the international spread of pandemic influenza

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0845-0855

  Cooper, Ben S ^a   Pitman, Richard J ^a   Edmunds, W John ^a   Gay, Nigel J ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; POPULATION MODEL; PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33745615112     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030212     Document Type: Article

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