Disease extinction and community size: Modeling the persistence of measles

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5296, 1997, Pages 65-67

  Keeling, M J ^a   Grenfell, B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEASLES; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MEASLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 0031015249     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5296.65     Document Type: Article

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