The role of subway travel in an influenza epidemic: A New York city simulation

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 982-995

  Cooley, Philip ^a   Brown, Shawn ^b   Cajka, James ^a   Chasteen, Bernadette ^b   Ganapathi, Laxminarayana ^a   Grefenstette, John ^a   Hollingsworth, Craig R ^a   Lee, Bruce Y ^b   Levine, Burton ^a   Wheaton, William D ^a   Wagener, Diane K ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Computer simulation; Human influenza; Infectious disease transmission; Pandemic; Subway travel

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RAILWAY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK CITY; RAILROADS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855304645     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-011-9603-4     Document Type: Article

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