Impact of quarantine on the 2003 SARS outbreak: A retrospective modeling study

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 729-736

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a   King, Chwan Chuan ^b   Chen, Cathy W S ^c   Ho, Mei Shang ^d   Hsu, Sze Bi ^e   Wu, Yi Chun ^f  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Discrete time compartmental model; Emerging infectious diseases; Intervention; Quarantine; SARS; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AVIAN INFLUENZA; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MODELING; MORTALITY RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FOWL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RECORD; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SIMULATION; TAIWAN; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATIENT ISOLATION; QUARANTINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN; TRAVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

AVES;

EID: 33846454692     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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