Modeling the worldwide spread of pandemic influenza: Baseline case and containment interventions

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 0095-0110

  Colizza, Vittoria ^a,b   Barrat, Alain ^b,c   Barthelemy, Marc ^a,d   Valleron, Alain Jacques ^e,f   Vespignani, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d CEA DIF   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; AVIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PANDEMIC; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; ASIA; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD DISEASE; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; PATHOGENICITY; POULTRY; SEASON; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ASIA; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846670320     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040013     Document Type: Article

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