Uncertainty in the tail of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemic in the UK.

Despite low case numbers the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemic poses many challenges for public health planning due to remaining uncertainties in disease biology and transmission routes. We develop a stochastic model for variant CJD transmission, taking into account the known transmission r...

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Main Authors: Tini Garske, Azra C Ghani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3009744?pdf=render