Thresholds and initial growth rates in a model of parasitic infection

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1045-1074

  Barbour, A D ^a   Heesterbeek, J A P ^b   Luchsinger, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Epidemic theory; Parasitic infection; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030354024     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1035463323     Document Type: Article

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