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Modeling the effect of transient populations on epidemics in Washington DC

Large numbers of transients visit big cities, where they come into contact with many people at crowded areas. However, epidemiological studies have not paid much attention to the role of this subpopulation in disease spread. We evaluate the effect of transients on epidemics by extending a synthetic...

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Autores principales: Parikh, Nidhi, Youssef, Mina, Swarup, Samarth, Eubank, Stephen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24193263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03152