Spatial dynamics of an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome in an urban area

• Egile Nagusiak: Jinfeng Wang (Egilea), Anthony J McMichael (Egilea), Bin Meng (Egilea), Niels G Becker (Egilea), Weiguo Han (Egilea), Kathryn Glass (Egilea), Jilei Wu (Egilea), Xuhua Liu (Egilea), Jiyuan Liu (Egilea), Xiaowen Li (Egilea), Xiaoying Zheng (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: The World Health Organization.
• Gaiak: article
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OBJECTIVE: To map risk of exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in an urban area and assess the ability of traditional interventions to control dispersion of the disease. METHODS: Data on the Beijing SARS epidemic were used to map spatial clusters of identified contacts and to estimat...