A 'small-world-like' model for comparing interventions aimed at preventing and controlling influenza pandemics

Fabrice Carrat¹^,2 , Julie Luong¹^,3 , Hervé Lao¹ , Anne-Violaine Sallé¹ , Christian Lajaunie³ and Hans Wackernagel³

¹Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, INSERM, UMR-S 707, Paris F-75012, France

²Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris F-75012, France

³Centre de Géostatistique de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau F-77300, France

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BMC Medicine 2006, 4:26doi:10.1186/1741-7015-4-26


Published:	23 October 2006

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PDF file One-way sensitivity analysis figures. A PDF file showing one-way sensitivity analyses of the reference scenario (Figure 7a) and a "combined interventions" scenario including the coverage of 70% of affected households, with treatment of the index patient, prophylaxis of household contacts, and confinement to home of all household members (Figure 7b), to parameters governing the natural history of influenza infection or healthcare use. The red curves describe simulated outbreaks with the parameter values used in the manuscript.

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Word file One-way sensitivity analysis table. A Word file showing one-way sensitivity analyses of the reference and the "combined interventions" scenarios to parameters governing the natural history of influenza infection or healthcare use.

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