Multiple equilibria: Tuberculosis transmission require unrealistic assumptions

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-170

  Lipsitch, Marc ^a   Murray, Megan B ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MIGRATION; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0037606173     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-5809(02)00037-0     Document Type: Letter

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