Three stage aids incubation period: A worst case scenario using addict-needle interaction assumptions

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-87

  Lewis, Fraser ^a   Greenhalgh, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIDS; Equilibrium and stability analysis; HIV; Pessimistic model; Three stage infectivity

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADDICTION; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCUBATION TIME; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEEDLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEEDLE SHARING; PREVALENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0035135290     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(00)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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