BMC Public Health

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Logistics of community smallpox control through contact tracing and ring vaccination: a stochastic network model

Travis C Porco1,2,3, Karen A Holbrook1, Susan E Fernyak1, Diane L Portnoy1, Randy Reiter1 and Tomás J Aragón1,2*

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1 San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Health and Epidemiology Section, Epidemiology and Effectiveness Research Unit, 101 Grove Street Suite 204, San Francisco, California 94102 USA

2 Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA

3 Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, Tuberculosis Control Branch, Division of Communicable Disease Control, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, California, USA

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BMC Public Health 2004, 4:34 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-4-34

Published: 6 August 2004

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