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Operationalising factors that explain the emergence of infectious diseases: a case study of the human campylobacteriosis epidemic.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Strachan Norval J C, Rotariu Ovidiu, MacRae Marion, Sheppard Samuel K, Smith-Palmer Alison, Cowden John, Maiden Martin C J, Forbes Ken J
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A framework of general factors for infectious disease emergence was made operational for Campylobacter utilising explanatory variables including time series and risk factor data. These variables were generated using a combination of empirical epidemiology, case-case and case-control studies, time series analysis, and microbial sub-typing (source attribution, diversity, genetic distance) to unravel the...
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