The importance of including dynamic social networks when modeling epidemics of airborne infections: Does increasing complexity increase accuracy?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Blower, Sally ^a   Go, Myong Hyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIRBORNE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOTE; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; METHODOLOGY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS;

EID: 79960564517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-88     Document Type: Note

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