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Quantification of the severity of an outbreak in human infection control

BACKGROUND: The severity of an outbreak is a priority in decision-making for human infection control. However, there have been no reports on how to quantify the severity of an outbreak. METHODS: We propose a simple method to measure the severity of an infectious disease outbreak. It involves scoring...

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Autores principales: Chen, Yue-Ying, Sun, Ying-Xue, Chen, Ji-Wang, Chen, Ji-Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Society for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20227902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2009.09.010