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Submitted on May 16, 2003
Accepted on May 22, 2003
Modeling the SARS Epidemic
Chris Dye 1*Nigel Gay 2
1 Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. 2 Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; Health Protection Agency, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London NW9 5EQ, UK.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dyec{at}who.int.
Epidemiologists are still trying to understand how and why theSARS coronavirus has spread so readily throughout Asia and certainother regions of the world. In a Perspective, Dye and Gay discusstwo new reports that use available data about the course ofSARS infection to model the SARS epidemic (Lipsitch et al.,Riley et al.).
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REPORTS
Steven Riley, Christophe Fraser, Christl A. Donnelly, Azra C. Ghani, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Anthony J. Hedley, Gabriel M. Leung, Lai-Ming Ho, Tai-Hing Lam, Thuan Q. Thach, Patsy Chau, King-Pan Chan, Su-Vui Lo, Pak-Yin Leung, Thomas Tsang, William Ho, Koon-Hung Lee, Edith M. C. Lau, Neil M. Ferguson, and Roy M. Anderson (20 June 2003) Science300 (5627), 1961.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1086478] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
REPORTS
Marc Lipsitch, Ted Cohen, Ben Cooper, James M. Robins, Stefan Ma, Lyn James, Gowri Gopalakrishna, Suok Kai Chew, Chorh Chuan Tan, Matthew H. Samore, David Fisman, and Megan Murray (20 June 2003) Science300 (5627), 1966.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1086616] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »|Supporting Online Material »
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