A mechanistic model of infection: Why duration and intensity of contacts should be included in models of disease spread

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Smieszek, Timo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICISM; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; INFECTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72849127144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4682-6-25     Document Type: Article

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