title: A large epidemic of hepatitis B in Serbia: an integrated model for outbreak investigations in healthcare settings.
abstract: We report a comprehensive approach for outbreak investigations, including cluster analysis (Bernoulli model), an algorithm to build inferential models, and molecular techniques to confirm cases. Our approach may be an interesting tool to best exploit the large amount of unsystematically collected information available during outbreak investigations in healthcare settings.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive-Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lanini
authors.forename: Gorana
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ćosić
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Menzo
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Puro
authors.forename: Predrag
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Đurić
authors.forename: Anna Rosa
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Garbuglia
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Milošević
authors.forename: Tatjana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Karać
authors.forename: Maria Rosaria
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Capobianchi
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ippolito
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D055771:Serbia / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies