How generation intervals shape the relationship between growth rates and reproductive numbers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1609, 2007, Pages 599-604

  Wallinga, J ^a   Lipsitch, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction ratio; Epidemiology; Influenza; Lotka Euler equation; Serial interval

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH MONITORING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GROWTH RATE; INFLUENZA; LOTKA EULER EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN;

COHORT EFFECT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249951995     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3754     Document Type: Article

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