Modelling the spread of carrier-dependent infectious diseases with environmental effect

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 385-402

  Ghosh, Mini ^a,c   Chandra, Peeyush ^a   Sinha, Prawal ^a   Shukla, J B ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b Centre for Modelling Environment and Development   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carrier; Epidemic model; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CARRIER; EPIDEMIC MODEL;

DISEASES;

EID: 1942440539     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(03)00564-2     Document Type: Article

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