Community-based measures for mitigating the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Tang, Sanyi ^a   Xiao, Yanni ^b   Yang, Youping ^b   Zhou, Yicang ^b   Wu, Jianhong ^c   Ma, Zhien ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRAVEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 77955291593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010911     Document Type: Article

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