Informing optimal environmental influenza interventions: how the host, agent, and environment alter dominant routes of transmission.

Influenza can be transmitted through respirable (small airborne particles), inspirable (intermediate size), direct-droplet-spray, and contact modes. How these modes are affected by features of the virus strain (infectivity, survivability, transferability, or shedding profiles), host population (beha...

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Main Authors: Ian H Spicknall, James S Koopman, Mark Nicas, Josep M Pujol, Sheng Li, Joseph N S Eisenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2965740?pdf=render