Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Virulence of Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Case Study of an Influenza Pandemic

BACKGROUND: The case fatality ratio (CFR), the ratio of deaths from an infectious disease to the number of cases, provides an assessment of virulence. Calculation of the ratio of the cumulative number of deaths to cases during the course of an epidemic tends to result in a biased CFR. The present st...

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Autores principales: Nishiura, Hiroshi, Klinkenberg, Don, Roberts, Mick, Heesterbeek, Johan A. P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19718434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006852

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19718434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006852

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