Modelling vaccination strategy against directly transmitted diseases using a series of pulses

Journal of Biological Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-212

  Yang, Hyun Mo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Periodicity; Security factor; Sensitivity analysis; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

GOES;

EID: 0000975961     PISSN: 02183390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218339098000145     Document Type: Article

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