Estimation of outbreak severity and transmissibility: Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in households

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  House, Thomas ^a   Inglis, Nadia ^b   Ross, Joshua V ^c   Wilson, Fay ^d   Suleman, Shakeel ^b   Edeghere, Obaghe ^b   Smith, Gillian ^b   Olowokure, Babatunde ^b   Keeling, Matt J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d BADGER Group Badger House   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case ascertainment; Household; Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Transmission dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOSTATISTICS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84867114697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-117     Document Type: Article

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