Analysis of Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Pandemic SARS Spread in Mainland China.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is one of the most severe emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century so far. SARS caused a pandemic that spread throughout mainland China for 7 months, infecting 5318 persons in 194 administrative regions. Using detailed mainland China epidemiological d...

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Publicado en:BioMed Research International Vol. 2016; pp. 1 - 13
Autores principales: Cao, Chunxiang, Chen, Wei, Zheng, Sheng, Zhao, Jian, Wang, Jinfeng, Cao, Wuchun
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 8/15/2016
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          Cao, Chunxiang
          Chen, Wei
          Zheng, Sheng
          Zhao, Jian
          Wang, Jinfeng
          Cao, Wuchun
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          Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Transmission
          Geographic Factors
          Disease Outbreaks China
          Time Factors
          China
          Human
          Probability
          Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Epidemiology
          Simulations
          Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Prevention and Control
          Descriptive Statistics
          Models, Statistical
          Data Analysis Software
          Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Etiology
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      ab: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is one of the most severe emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century so far. SARS caused a pandemic that spread throughout mainland China for 7 months, infecting 5318 persons in 194 administrative regions. Using detailed mainland China epidemiological data, we study spatiotemporal aspects of this person-to-person contagious disease and simulate its spatiotemporal transmission dynamics via the Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) method. The BME reveals that SARS outbreaks show autocorrelation within certain spatial and temporal distances. We use BME to fit a theoretical covariance model that has a sine hole spatial component and exponential temporal component and obtain the weights of geographical and temporal autocorrelation factors. Using the covariance model, SARS dynamics were estimated and simulated under the most probable conditions. Our study suggests that SARS transmission varies in its epidemiological characteristics and SARS outbreak distributions exhibit palpable clusters on both spatial and temporal scales. In addition, the BME modelling demonstrates that SARS transmission features are affected by spatial heterogeneity, so we analyze potential causes. This may benefit epidemiological control of pandemic infectious diseases.
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