A practical method to target individuals for outbreak detection and control

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chowell, Gerardo ^a,b   Viboud, Cécile ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

class schedule; collocation ranking; contact network; contact pattern; disease transmission.; dynamic network; high school; hotspot; influenza; wireless sensing devices

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOTE; PROXIMITY METHOD; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84873700136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-36     Document Type: Note

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