Dynamics and control of infections transmitted from person to person through the environment

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-265

  Eisenberg, Joseph N S ^a   Li, Sheng ^b   Spicknall, Ian H ^b   Koopman, James S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Disease transmission, infectious; Environment and public health; Environmental medicine; Epidemiologic methods; Fomites; Influenza, human; Intervention studies

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOMITE; FOOD; HAND; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL MEDICINE;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 67651091756     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp116     Document Type: Article

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