Epidemic threshold and network structure: The interplay of probability of transmission and of persistence in small-size directed networks

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Pautasso, Marco ^a   Jeger, Michael J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Infectious diseases; Initial conditions; Phytophthora ramorum; Small size networks; Spread of ideas

Indexed keywords

PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM;

EID: 37449003957     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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