Estimating the measles effective reproduction number in Australia from routine notification data;Estimation du taux de reproduction efficace de la rougeole en Australie à partir de données de notification de routine

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 171-177

  Chiew, May ^a   Gidding, Heather F ^b   Dey, Aditi ^a   Wood, James ^b   Martin, Nicolee ^c   Davis, Stephanie ^d   McIntyre, Peter ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance   (Australia)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASLES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896839139     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.125724     Document Type: Article

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