Using Routine Surveillance Data to Estimate the Epidemic Potential of Emerging Zoonoses: Application to the Emergence of US Swine Origin Influenza A H3N2v Virus

BACKGROUND: Prior to emergence in human populations, zoonoses such as SARS cause occasional infections in human populations exposed to reservoir species. The risk of widespread epidemics in humans can be assessed by monitoring the reproduction number R (average number of persons infected by a human...

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Main Authors: Cauchemez, Simon, Epperson, Scott, Biggerstaff, Matthew, Swerdlow, David, Finelli, Lyn, Ferguson, Neil M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3589342/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23472057
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001399
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