Analysis of a model for the dynamics of prions

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 225-235

  Prüss, Jan ^a   Pujo Menjouet, Laurent ^b   Webb, G F ^b   Zacher, Rico ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemics; Prions; Proliferation; Viral host interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644529127     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2006.6.225     Document Type: Article

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