A spatial variant of the basic reproduction number for the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1878

Professional Geographer

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 492-502

  Curtis, Andrew ^a   Mills, Jacqueline W ^a   Blackburn, Jason K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Medical geography; New Orleans; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; YELLOW FEVER;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35349010608     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9272.2007.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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