Characterizing the dynamics underlying global spread of epidemics

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Wang, Lin ^a   Wu, Joseph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA; METAPOPULATION;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; ARTICLE; AVIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARKOV CHAIN; METAPOPULATION; PANDEMIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS; FORECASTING; INFLUENZA;

AIR TRAVEL; EPIDEMICS; FORECASTING; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 85040790397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02344-z     Document Type: Article

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