Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: Modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1775, 2019, Pages

  Thompson, Robin N ^a,b   Brooks Pollock, Ellen ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRIST CHURCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Bristol Medical School ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal disease; Human disease; Mathematical modelling; One health; Plant disease; Public health

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING METHOD; HEALTH STATUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 85065424918     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0038     Document Type: Review

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