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Real‐time epidemiology
Author(s) -
Donnelly Christl,
Ghani Azra
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.00066.x
Subject(s) - epidemiology , outbreak , transmission (telecommunications) , computer science , key (lock) , operations research , medicine , mathematics , virology , computer security , telecommunications , pathology
Fitting transmission models to outbreak data allows key epidemiological parameters to be estimated and the impact of control measures to be evaluated. Christl Donnelly and Azra Ghani describe the use of such models in the 2003 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.