Hand, foot, and mouth disease in China: Patterns of spread and transmissibility

Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 781-792

  Wang, Yu ^a   Feng, Zijian ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Self, Steve ^b   Gao, Yongjun ^a   Longini, Ira M ^b   Wakefield, Jon ^c   Zhang, Jing ^a   Wang, Liping ^a   Chen, Xi ^c   Yao, Lena ^b   Stanaway, Jeffrey D ^d   Wang, Zijun ^a   Yang, Weizhong ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPERATURE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; FEMALE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80053595899     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318231d67a     Document Type: Article

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