Effect of data quality on estimates of farm infectiousness trends in the UK 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 235-241

  Savill, Nicholas J ^a   Shaw, Darren J ^b   Deardon, Rob ^c,h   Tildesley, Michael J ^d   Keeling, Matthew J ^d   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a   Brooks, Stephen P ^e   Grenfell, Bryan T ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Veterinary Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Foot and mouth disease; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FARM ANIMAL; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 34047099821     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0178     Document Type: Article

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