Correlation equations for endemic diseases: Externally imposed and internally generated heterogeneity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1422, 1999, Pages 953-960

  Keeling, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact networks; Correlation equations; Disease persistence; Power law behaviour; Spatial heterogeneity; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING;

AGE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033532241     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0729     Document Type: Article

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