Pulse vaccination strategy in the SIR epidemic model

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1123-1148

  Shulgin, Boris ^a   Stone, Lewi ^a   Agur, Zvia ^b  

^a SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; METHODOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SEASON; THEORY; VACCINATION;

EID: 0032213158     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8240(98)90005-2     Document Type: Article

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