Allometry and simple epidemic models for microparasites

Nature

Volumn 379, Issue 6567, 1996, Pages 720-722

  De Leo, Giulio A ^a   Dobson, Andy P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDEMIC; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; VIRUS DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030047390     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/379720a0     Document Type: Article

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