Who should wear mask against airborne infections? Altering the contact network for controlling the spread of contagious diseases

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1329-1332

  Schimit, P H T ^a   Monteiro, L H A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Ordinary differential equations; Probabilistic cellular automata; Random complex networks; SIR model; Swine influenza A virus

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; CONTACT NETWORKS; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS; RANDOM COMPLEX NETWORKS; SIR MODEL; SWINE INFLUENZA A VIRUS; WEAR FACE;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER VIRUSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); VIRUSES;

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DISEASE SPREAD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA; PIG; PUBLIC HEALTH;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZAVIRUS A; SUIDAE;

EID: 77949654397     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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