Localized contacts between hosts reduce pathogen diversity

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 477-487

  Nunes, A ^a   Telo da Gama, M M ^a   Gomes, M G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Pathogen diversity; Reinfection threshold; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECURRENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 33745842603     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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