Influenza drift and epidemic size: The race between generating and escaping immunity

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-191

  Boni, Maciej F ^a,d   Gog, Julia R ^b   Andreasen, Viggo ^c   Christiansen, Freddy B ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Annual epidemics; Antigenic drift; Cross immunity; Evolutionary epidemiology; Herd immunity; Influenza; Pathogen invasion

Indexed keywords

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EID: 1242299532     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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