An individual-based network model to evaluate interventions for controlling pneumococcal transmission

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Karlsson, Diana ^a,b   Jansson, Andreas ^a   Normark, Birgitta Henriques ^b   Nilsson, Patric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWEDEN; AGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN;

EID: 47349104286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-83     Document Type: Article

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