Q fever outbreak in Cheltenham, United Kingdom, in 2007 and the use of dispersion modelling to investigate the possibility of airborne spread

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Wallensten, A ^a,b   Moore, P ^c   Webster, H ^d   Johnson, C ^a   van der Burgt, G ^e   Pritchard, G ^e   Ellis Iversen, J ^e   Oliver, I ^a,f  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c GLOUCESTERSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77950986383     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
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