The effectiveness of contact tracing in emerging epidemics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Klinkenberg, Don ^a   Fraser, Christophe ^b   Heesterbeek, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT CARE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

VARIOLA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX;

EID: 54249136510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000012     Document Type: Article

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