Lessons from a decade of individual-based models for infectious disease transmission: A systematic review (2006-2015)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Willem, Lander ^a   Verelst, Frederik ^a   Bilcke, Joke ^a   Hens, Niel ^a,b   Beutels, Philippe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based; Dynamics; Emerging diseases; Endemic diseases; Individual based; Mathematical epidemiology; Modeling; Networks; ODD protocol; Transmission

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; ROTAVIRUS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHICKENPOX; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE MODEL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODEL; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; MEASLES; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MUMPS; NOMENCLATURE; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; POLIOMYELITIS; PUBLICATION; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; RUBELLA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TETANUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; META ANALYSIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VACCINES;

EID: 85029219090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-017-2699-8     Document Type: Article

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