Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 467-484

  Altizer, Sonia ^a   Dobson, Andrew ^b   Hosseini, Parviez ^b   Hudson, Peter ^c   Pascual, Mercedes ^d   Rohani, Pejman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual cycle; Climate variation; Host parasite interaction; Population dynamics; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONALITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645352212     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00879.x     Document Type: Review

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