Small islands and pandemic influenza: Potential benefits and limitations of travel volume reduction as a border control measure

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 160-

  Eichner, Martin ^a   Schwehm, Markus ^b   Wilson, Nick ^c   Baker, Michael G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b EXPLOSYS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PACIFIC ISLANDS; PANDEMIC; PROBABILITY; SCREENING; TRAVEL; VIRUS STRAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PACIFIC ISLANDS; TRAVEL;

EID: 70449432653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-160     Document Type: Article

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