Household structure and infectious disease transmission
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Household structure and infectious disease transmission
One of the central tenets of modern infectious disease epidemiology is that an understanding of heterogeneities, both in host demography and transmission, allows control to be efficiently optimized. Due to the strong interactions present, households are one of the most important heterogeneities to consider, both in terms of predicting epidemic severity and as a target for intervention. We consi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Infection
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0950-2688,1469-4409
DOI: 10.1017/s0950268808001416