Logistic growth of a surface contamination network and its role in disease spread

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lei, Hao ^a   Li, Yuguo ^a   Xiao, Shenglan ^a   Yang, Xinyan ^a   Lin, Chaohsin ^b   Norris, Sharon L ^b   Wei, Daniel ^b   Hu, Zhongmin ^c   Ji, Shengcheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c Future Science Park   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOMITE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME FACTOR; TOUCH; VIROLOGY;

AIRCRAFT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FOMITES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 85032797562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13840-z     Document Type: Article

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