Infectious disease transmission as a forensic problem: Who infected whom?

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 81, 2013, Pages

  Teunis, Peter ^a,b   Heijne, Janneke C M ^c   Sukhrie, Faizel ^a,d   Van Eijkeren, Jan ^a   Koopmans, Marion ^a,d   Kretzschmar, Mirjam ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biostatistics; Infectious disease; Networks; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); TRANSMISSIONS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; BIOSTATISTICS; IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL LOCATION; TRANSMISSION LINK; TRANSMISSION PROBABILITIES;

PATHOGENS;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PROBABILITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BAYES THEOREM; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; NOROVIRUS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875692836     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0955     Document Type: Article

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