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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...
Autores principales: | Chen, Yue-Ying, Sun, Ying-Xue, Chen, Ji-Wang, Chen, Ji-Ming |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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