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SUBMITTER: Pei S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5856508 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pei Sen S Kandula Sasikiran S Yang Wan W Shaman Jeffrey J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180226 11
Recurrent outbreaks of seasonal and pandemic influenza create a need for forecasts of the geographic spread of this pathogen. Although it is well established that the spatial progression of infection is largely attributable to human mobility, difficulty obtaining real-time information on human movement has limited its incorporation into existing infectious disease forecasting techniques. In this study, we develop and validate an ensemble forecast system for predicting the spatiotemporal spread o ...[more]