Reducing the impact of the next influenza pandemic using household-based public health interventions

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1532-1540

  Wu, Joseph T ^a,b   Riley, Steven ^a   Fraser, Christophe ^c   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HOME CARE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY SIZE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PATIENT CARE;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PATIENT ISOLATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUARANTINE;

EID: 33749039988     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030361     Document Type: Article

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