Modelling outbreak control for pneumonic plague

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 733-739

  Massin, L ^a,b   Legrand, J ^a,b   Valleron, A J ^a,b   Flahault, Antoine ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE MODEL; EPIDEMIC; FACE MASK; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PLAGUE; PROBABILITY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547434354     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806007345     Document Type: Article

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