Estimating the Location and Spatial Extent of a Covert Anthrax Release

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Legrand, Judith ^a   Egan, Joseph R ^b   Hall, Ian M ^b   Cauchemez, Simon ^a   Leach, Steve ^b   Ferguson, Neil M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; METEOROLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK PERCEPTION;

ANTHRAX OUTBREAK; BACKCALCULATIONS; BIOTERROR; DATA POPULATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MITIGATION STRATEGY; POPULATION DATA; POPULATION DENSITIES; SPATIAL EXTENT; TRAVEL PATTERNS;

LOCATION;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISPERSION; DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK; SIMULATION; STRENGTH; TIME; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY;

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOTERRORISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 66249131020     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000356     Document Type: Article

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