Estimating incidence of the French BSE infection using a joint analysis of both asymptomatic and clinical BSE surveillance data

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-107

  Supervie, Virginie ^a,b   Costagliola, Dominique ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Back calculation; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Epidemiology; Surveillance; Survival; Test sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRUSES;

BACKCALCULATION; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; SURVEILLANCE; TEST SENSITIVITY;

DISEASES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; CATTLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FRANCE; INCIDENCE;

BOVINAE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 34547850251     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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