Developing stochastic epidemiological models to quantify the dynamics of infectious diseases in domestic livestock

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2047-2056

  MacKenzie, K ^a   Bishop, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Epidemiology; Pigs; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; RANDOMIZATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 0035432208     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/2001.7982047x     Document Type: Article

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