Quantitative assessment of passenger flows in Europe and its implications for tracing contacts of infectious passengers

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Askar, M ^a   Mohr, O ^a   Eckmanns, T ^a   Krause, G ^a   Poggensee, G ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MOTOR VEHICLE; RAILWAY; TRAVEL;

EID: 84862892410     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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