Control dynamics of severe acute respiratory syndrome transmission

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2684-2687

  Wang, Haiying ^a   Rong, Feng ^a   Ke, Fujiu ^a,b   Bai, Yilong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Effective reproduction number; Lasting time of epidemic; SARS; Scale of epidemic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749650820     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03ww0126     Document Type: Article

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