A simulation model for the study of the within-animal infection dynamics of E. coli O157

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 180-193

  Wood, J C ^a   McKendrick, I J ^a   Gettinby, G ^b  

^a Biomathematics and Statistics for Scotland 'BioSS'   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Escherichia coli O157; Gastrointestinal tract; Mathematical model; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROBIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RUMINANT STOMACH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; INTESTINES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBIOTICS; RUMEN; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H-;

EID: 33747627851     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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