Local variations in spatial synchrony of influenza epidemics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Stark, James H ^a   Cummings, Derek A T ^b   Ermentrout, Bard ^c   Ostroff, Stephen ^d   Sharma, Ravi ^e   Stebbins, Samuel ^e   Burke, Donald S ^e   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^e  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; LEISURE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL SYNCRONY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORKPLACE;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84865102426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043528     Document Type: Article

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