Seasonality and the requirements for perpetuation and eradication of viruses in populations

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 103-123

  Yorke, James A ^a   Nathanson, Neal ^b   Pianigiani, Giulio ^a,b   Martin, John ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMAL; COMPUTERS; ECTROMELIA, INFECTIOUS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MARYLAND; MEASLES; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLIOMYELITIS; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0018643519     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112666     Document Type: Article

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