Modeling the effect of transient populations on epidemics in Washington DC

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Parikh, Nidhi ^a   Youssef, Mina ^a   Swarup, Samarth ^a   Eubank, Stephen ^a  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTACT TRACING; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84889610383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03152     Document Type: Article

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