Emerging infectious diseases

The most recent articles from: March 2004

  • Emerging Infect. Dis. · Mar 2004

    Predicting quarantine failure rates.

    Preemptive quarantine through contact-tracing effectively controls emerging infectious diseases. Occasionally this quarantine fails, however, and infected persons are released. ⋯ Here a simple, exact estimate of the failure rate is derived that does not depend on disease-specific parameters. This estimate is universally applicable to all infectious diseases.

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