Estimation of the Likelihood of Fecal-Oral HEV Transmission Among Pigs

Risk Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 940-950

  Bouwknegt, Martijn ^a   Teunis, Peter F M ^b,c   Frankena, Klaas ^a   de Jong, Mart C M ^a   de Roda Husman, Ana Maria ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dose response; Fecal oral transmission; Hepatitis E virus

Indexed keywords

DOSE RESPONSE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FECAL-ORAL TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN INFECTION; ON CURRENTS; ORAL INGESTION; ORAL INOCULATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER VALUES; TOTAL VALUES; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMISSION ROUTE;

RISK PERCEPTION; VIRUSES;

MAMMALS;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FECES; HEPATITIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INGESTION RATE; PIG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; MOUTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; FECES; HEPATITIS E; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOUTH; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79959279639     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01546.x     Document Type: Article

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