Methods for estimating the case fatality ratio for a novel, emerging infectious disease.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on August 02, 2005

Authors

A C Ghani1, C A Donnelly, D R Cox, J T Griffin, C Fraser, T H Lam, L M Ho, W S Chan, R M Anderson, A J Hedley, G M Leung

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. azra.ghani@lshtm.ac.uk

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