Contribution of seasonality in transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis to seasonality in tuberculosis disease: A simulation study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1281-1288

  Soetens, Lucia C ^a   Boshuizen, Hendriek C ^a   Korthals Altes, Hester ^a  

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

Author keywords

Fourier analysis; incubation period; infectious diseases; molecular typing; seasons; tuberculosis; tuberculosis transmission

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INCUBATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEASONALITY; SIMULATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CROWDING (AREA); EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WINTER;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; INCUBATION PERIOD; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEASONS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS TRANSMISSION;

CROWDING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; SEASONS; TUBERCULOSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84885701779     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt114     Document Type: Article

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