Modelling the spread of phocine distemper virus among harbour seals

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 585-596

  De Koeijer, Aline ^a   Diekmann, Odo ^b   Reijnders, Peter ^c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; MATHEMATICS; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SEAL; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032078481     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bulm.1997.0030     Document Type: Article

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