A model for the dynamics of a protozoan parasite within and between successive host populations

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 949-958

  Klinkenberg, D ^a   Heesterbeek, J A P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental contamination; Epidemiology; Mathematical model; Population dynamics; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COHORT ANALYSIS; EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA BRUNETTI; EIMERIA MAXIMA; EIMERIA MITIS; EIMERIA NECATRIX; EIMERIA PRAECOX; EIMERIA TENELLA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COCCIDIOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIMERIA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYSTS; POULTRY DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EIMERIA; GALLUS GALLUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34250621368     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007002429     Document Type: Article

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