Temporal variability and social heterogeneity in disease transmission: the case of SARS in Hong Kong.

The extent to which self-adopted or intervention-related changes in behaviors affect the course of epidemics remains a key issue for outbreak control. This study attempted to quantify the effect of such changes on the risk of infection in different settings, i.e., the community and hospitals. The 20...

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Main Authors: Anne Cori, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Guy Thomas, Gabriel M Leung, Alain-Jacques Valleron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2717369?pdf=render