Estimating the reproductive numbers for the 2008-2009 cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8767-8772

  Mukandavire, Zindoga ^a   Liao, Shu ^b   Wang, Jin ^c   Gaff, Holly ^c   Smith, David L ^a   Morris Jr , J Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CHONGQING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Parameter estimate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZIMBABWE;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VACCINATION; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 79957773377     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019712108     Document Type: Article

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