Probabilistic model of influenza virus transmissibility at various temperature and humidity conditions

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 339-343

  Zuk, Tomasz ^a   Rakowski, Franciszek ^a   Radomski, Jan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Influenza; Influenza epidemiology; Influenza infectivity; Influenza transmission

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HUMIDITY CONDITIONS; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA INFECTIVITY; INFLUENZA TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; PARAMETER VALUES; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; TEMPERATURE;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 68749091090     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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