Modelling the transmission dynamics of Ross River virus in Southwestern Australia

IMA Journal of Mathemathics Applied in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-74

  Choi, Y H ^a   Comiskey, C ^b   Lindsay, M D A ^c   Cross, J A ^d   Anderson, M ^d  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c Department of Health ^*  (Australia)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Extrinsic incubation period; Mathematical model; Mosquito mortality rate; Ross River virus; Sensitivity analysis; Threshold condition

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOST; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; KANGAROO; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SUMMER; SYMPTOM; VIREMIA; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WINTER;

ALPHAVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS SP.; METATHERIA; RNA VIRUSES; ROSS RIVER VIRUS;

DISEASE CONTROL; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVERS; VECTORS; VIRUSES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;; EXTRINSIC INCUBATION PERIOD;; INCUBATION PERIODS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;; MORTALITY RATE; MOSQUITO MORTALITY RATE; ROSS RIVER VIRUS;; SENSITIVITY ANALYSE;; THRESHOLD CONDITION; THRESHOLD CONDITION;;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036522026     PISSN: 02650746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imammb/19.1.61     Document Type: Article

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