Stochasticity generates an evolutionary instability for infectious disease

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 818-827

  Read, Jonathan M ^a   Keeling, Matt J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infectious period; Mutation; R0; Selection; SIR equation; Trade off; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; STATISTICS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34547426833     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01078.x     Document Type: Article

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