Sexually transmitted diseases: Epidemic cycling and immunity

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7024, 2005, Pages 366-367

  Grenfell, Bryan ^a   Bjørnstad, Ottar ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; VIRUSES;

EPIDEMIC CYCLING; GONORRHOEA; PATHOGENS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

DISEASES;

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GONORRHEA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENT; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYPHILIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 13444291214     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/433366a     Document Type: Short Survey

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