Host heterogeneity and disease endemicity: A moment-based approach

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-335

  Dushoff, Jonathan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033387623     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1999.1428     Document Type: Article

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