Introducing the Outbreak Threshold in Epidemiology

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hartfield, Matthew ^a   Alizon, Samuel ^a  

^a University de Montpellier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HOST; HUMAN; MEASLES; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; SECONDARY INFECTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMALLPOX;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879531336     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003277     Document Type: Article

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