Characterizing the Transmission Potential of Zoonotic Infections from Minor Outbreaks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kucharski, Adam J ^a,b   Edmunds, W John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOGENS;

INFLUENZA A; NOVEL METHODS; REPRODUCTION NUMBERS; SIMPLE++; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION MODEL; TRANSMISSION POTENTIAL; UNBIASED ESTIMATES;

MERS;

AGE; ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A (H7N9); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N9; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; SEROLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84929484464     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004154     Document Type: Article

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