Estimating incidence curves of several infections using symptom surveillance data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Goldstein, Edward ^a   Cowling, Benjamin J ^b   Aiello, Allison E ^c   Takahashi, Saki ^d   King, Gary ^e   Lu, Ying ^f   Lipsitch, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOM SURVEILLANCE DATA; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MICHIGAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 80051962615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023380     Document Type: Article

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