What is the best control strategy for multiple infectious disease outbreaks?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1611, 2007, Pages 833-837

  Handel, Andreas ^b   Longini Jr , Ira M ^a   Antia, Rustom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic control; Infectious disease outbreak; Influenza; Mathematical model; SARS

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SCHOOL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SUPERINFECTION; TRAVEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34247252561     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0015     Document Type: Article

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