Correlated infections: Quantifying individual heterogeneity in the spread of infectious diseases

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 474-486

  Farrington, C Paddy ^a   Whitaker, Heather J ^b   Unkel, Steffen ^b   Pebody, Richard ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

basic reprodfuction number; communicable diseases; correlations; disease transmission, infectious; frailty; heterogeneity; mass vaccination; serological tests

Indexed keywords

VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

CHILD HEALTH; CORRELATION; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTION; VACCINATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BELGIUM; BK VIRUS; CHILD CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; ITALY; JC VIRUS; POLAND; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VACCINATION;

EUROPE;

POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 84874762598     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws260     Document Type: Article

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