Dynamics of the pneumonic plague epidemic in Madagascar, August to October 2017

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 22, Issue 46, 2017, Pages

  Tsuzuki, Shinya ^a   Lee, Hyojung ^a   Miura, Fuminari ^a,b   Chan, Yat Hin ^a   Jung, Sung Mok ^a   Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R ^a   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; COUGHING; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL PLAGUE; FATALITY; FEVER; GROWTH RATE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX PAIN; CONTACT EXAMINATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PLAGUE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PLAGUE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 85035026155     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.46.17-00710     Document Type: Article

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