Changing spatial epidemiology of pertussis in continental USA
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Changing spatial epidemiology of pertussis in continental USA.
Prediction and control of the geographical spread of emerging pathogens has become a central public health issue. Because these infectious diseases are by definition novel, there are few data to characterize their dynamics. One possible solution to this problem is to apply lessons learnt from analyses of historical data on familiar and epidemiologically similar pathogens. However, the portabili...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1761