The role of different social contexts in shaping influenza transmission during the 2009 pandemic

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ajelli, Marco ^a   Poletti, Piero ^a,b   Melegaro, Alessia ^b   Merler, Stefano ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PANDEMIC; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PANDEMICS; SCHOOLS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947804614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07218     Document Type: Article

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