Pandemic preparedness strategies for school systems: Is closure really the only way?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 449-458

  Lofgren, Eric T ^a   Rogers, Jeremiah ^b   Senese, Margaret ^b,c   Fefferman, Nina H ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYGIENE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 56549093547     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.045.0508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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