Transmission assumptions generate conflicting predictions in host-vector disease models: A case study in West Nile virus

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 706-725

  Wonham, Marjorie J ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^a   Rencławowicz, Joanna ^a,b,c   Van Den Driessche, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arboviral encephalitis; Basic reproduction number; Disease control; Emerging infectious disease; R0; Transmission dynamics; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; VECTOR;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33646846267     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00912.x     Document Type: Review

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