Comparing effectiveness of top-down and bottom-up strategies in containing influenza

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Marathe, Achla ^a,b   Lewis, Bryan ^a   Barrett, Christopher ^a,c   Chen, Jiangzhuo ^a   Marathe, Madhav ^a,c   Eubank, Stephen ^a,b   Ma, Yifei ^a  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BLOCK PROTOCOL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFLUENZA; PROBABILITY; PROPHYLAXIS; SCHOOL PROTOCOL; EPIDEMIC;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN;

EID: 80053072324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025149     Document Type: Article

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