Epiflows: an R package for risk assessment of travel-related spread of disease.

ABSTRACT: As international travel increases worldwide, new surveillance tools are needed to help identify locations where diseases are most likely to be spread and prevention measures need to be implemented. In this paper we present epiflows, an R package for risk assessment of travel-related spread of disease.  epiflows produces estimates of the expected number of symptomatic and/or asymptomatic infections that could be introduced to other locations from the source of infection. Estimates (average and confidence intervals) of the number of infections introduced elsewhere are obtained by integrating data on the cumulative number of cases reported, population movement, length of stay and information on the distributions of the incubation and infectious periods of the disease. The packag

SUBMITTER: Moraga P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6738191 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature