Reconstructing the 2003/2004 H3N2 influenza epidemic in Switzerland with a spatially explicit, individual-based model

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Smieszek, Timo ^a   Balmer, Michael ^a   Hattendorf, Jan ^b,c   Axhausen, Kay W ^a   Zinsstag, Jakob ^b,c   Scholz, Roland W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; KNOWLEDGE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION STUDY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955699734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-115     Document Type: Article

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