Household size is critical to varicella-zoster virus transmission in the tropics despite lower viral infectivity

Epidemics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-18

  Nichols, Richard A ^a   Averbeck, Karin T ^b   Poulsen, Anja G ^c   al Bassam, Mahmoud M ^b   Cabral, Fernando ^c   Aaby, Peter ^c   Breuer, Judith ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BANDIM HEALTH PROJECT   (Guinea-Bissau)

Author keywords

Chickenpox; Climate; Transmission; Tropical; VZV

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; GUINEA-BISSAU; HERPES ZOSTER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; CHICKENPOX; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GENOTYPE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 78650393251     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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