Impact of travel between patches for spatial spread of disease

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1355-1375

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a   Van Den Driessche, P ^b   Wang, Lin ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Border control; Influenza; Multipatch model; Spatial spread; Travel rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PREVALENCE; TRAVEL;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; QUARANTINE; TRAVEL;

EID: 34248661261     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-006-9169-6     Document Type: Article

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