PLoS Medicine (Jan 2012)

New methodology for estimating the burden of infectious diseases in Europe.

  • Mirjam Kretzschmar,
  • Marie-Josée J Mangen,
  • Paulo Pinheiro,
  • Beate Jahn,
  • Eric M Fèvre,
  • Silvia Longhi,
  • Taavi Lai,
  • Arie H Havelaar,
  • Claudia Stein,
  • Alessandro Cassini,
  • Piotr Kramarz,
  • BCoDE consortium

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001205
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
p. e1001205

Abstract

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Mirjam Kretzschmar and colleagues describe the BCoDE project, which uses a pathogen-based incidence approach to better estimate the infectious disease burden in Europe.