Assessment of Human-to-Human Transmissibility of Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Across 5 Waves by Analyzing Clusters of Case Patients in Mainland China, 2013

Assessment of Human-to-Human Transmissibility of Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Across 5 Waves by Analyzing Clusters of Case Patients in Mainland China, 2013–2017

Published:2018-06-29 Issue:4 Volume:68 Page:623-631
ISSN:1058-4838
Container-title:Clinical Infectious Diseases
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Author:

Wang Xiling¹,Wu Peng²,Pei Yao¹,Tsang Tim K³,Gu Dantong¹,Wang Wei¹,Zhang Juanjuan¹,Horby Peter W⁴,Uyeki Timothy M⁵,Cowling Benjamin J²,Yu Hongjie¹

Affiliation:

1. School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai

2. World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

3. Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions & College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville

4. Center for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

5. Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

Funder

National Science Fund

Program of Shanghai Academy/Technology Research

U.S. National Institutes of Health

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government

Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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