Designing a typhoid environmental surveillance study: A simulation model for optimum sampling site allocation

Environmental surveillance can be used for monitoring enteric disease in a population by detecting pathogens, shed by infected people, in sewage. Detection of pathogens depends on many factors: infection rates and shedding in the population, pathogen fate in the sewerage network, and also sampling s...

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Main Authors: Yuke Wang, Christine L. Moe, Shanta Dutta, Ashutosh Wadhwa, Suman Kanungo, Wolfgang Mairinger, Yichuan Zhao, Yi Jiang, Peter FM. Teunis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300189