Modeling the spread of antibiotic resistance

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ICEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1152-1159

  Hallinan, J S ^a   Wiles, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; FIXED SIZE; MODEL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; ORIGINAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC IMPLEMENTATION; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS;

ANTIBIOTICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BACTERIA; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ANTIBIOTICS;

EID: 0033672418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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