Predictability and epidemic pathways in global outbreaks of infectious diseases: The SARS case study

BMC Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Colizza, Vittoria ^a   Barrat, Alain ^a,b   Barthélemy, Marc ^c   Vespignani, Alessandro ^a,d  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEA DIF   (France)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HONG KONG; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRAVEL; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 38649141794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-5-34     Document Type: Article

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