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SUBMITTER: Charu V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5349690 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Charu Vivek V Zeger Scott S Gog Julia J Bjørnstad Ottar N ON Kissler Stephen S Simonsen Lone L Grenfell Bryan T BT Viboud Cécile C
PLoS computational biology 20170210 2
Seasonal influenza epidemics offer unique opportunities to study the invasion and re-invasion waves of a pathogen in a partially immune population. Detailed patterns of spread remain elusive, however, due to lack of granular disease data. Here we model high-volume city-level medical claims data and human mobility proxies to explore the drivers of influenza spread in the US during 2002-2010. Although the speed and pathways of spread varied across seasons, seven of eight epidemics likely originate ...[more]