Assessing measles transmission in the United States following a large outbreak in California

PLoS Currents

Volumn 7, Issue OUTBREAKS, 2015, Pages

  Blumberg, Seth ^a,b,c   Worden, Lee ^b   Enanoria, Wayne ^b   Deiner, Michael ^d   Ackley, Sarah ^b   Liu, Fengchen ^b   Gao, Daozhou ^b   Lietman, Thomas ^b   Porco, Travis ^b  

^a ST MARY S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Effective reproduction number; Infectious diseases; Measles; Transmission chain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MEASLES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84941211409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.b497624d7043b1aecfbfd3dfda3e344a     Document Type: Article

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