Predicting epidemic risk from past temporal contact data.

Understanding how epidemics spread in a system is a crucial step to prevent and control outbreaks, with broad implications on the system's functioning, health, and associated costs. This can be achieved by identifying the elements at higher risk of infection and implementing targeted surveillan...

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Main Authors: Eugenio Valdano, Chiara Poletto, Armando Giovannini, Diana Palma, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4357450?pdf=render