Drivers of airborne human-to-human pathogen transmission

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2017, Pages 22-29

  Herfst, Sander ^a   Böhringer, Michael ^b   Karo, Basel ^c,d   Lawrence, Philip ^e,f   Lewis, Nicola S ^g   Mina, Michael J ^h   Russell, Charles J ⁱ   Steel, John ^j   de Swart, Rik L ^a   Menge, Christian ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d PhD Programme Epidemiology   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^f CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFECTIOLOGIE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE INFECTION; AVIAN CORONAVIRUS; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COXIELLA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FRANCISELLA; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AEROSOL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIRUS INFECTION;

AEROSOL;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 85001085834     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: 18796265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.11.006     Document Type: Review

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