The spread and quarantine of HIV infection in a prison system

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1510-1530

  Gani, J ^a   Yakowitz, S ^b   Blount, M ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Deterministic and stochastic epidemic models; Error bounding for Markov chains; HIV infection; Prison; Quarantine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PRISONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATE SPACE METHODS; VIRUSES;

DETERMINISTIC MODEL; DISCRETE TIME STOCHASTIC MODEL; EPIDEMICS; HIV INFECTION; PRISON; QUARANTINE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0031336585     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139995283237     Document Type: Article

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