Estimation of reproduction number and probable vector density of the first autochthonous dengue outbreak in Japan in the last 70 years

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 466-471

  Furuya, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral and environmental factors; Dengue; Epidemic curve; Mathematical modeling; Urban

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; DENGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTIMATED REPRODUCTION NUMBER; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBABLE VECTOR DENSITY; TRAVEL; URBAN AREA; AEDES; ANIMAL; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; INSECT VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; JAPAN; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84946482169     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-015-0488-9     Document Type: Article

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