On Case-Fatality Rate: Review and Hypothesis
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On case-fatality rate: review and hypothesis.
The relationship between log cumulative number of patients (X) and that of deaths (Y) in an epidemic follows the equation logY = klogX - klogN(0), where k is a constant determining the slope and N(0) is the value of X when Y = 1. Diseases with k = 1 are Ebola hemorrhagic fever, avian influenza H5N1, cholera, and hand, foot, and mouth disease; those with k > 1 are the influenza H1N1 2009 pand...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1344-6304
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.65.279