Cities and villages: Infection hierarchies in a measles metapopulation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-70

  Grenfell, B T ^a   Bolker, B M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Epidemiology; Heterogeneity; Infection dynamics; Measles; Metapopulation; Microparasite; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003022391     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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