Modeling the impact of immigration on the epidemiology of tuberculosis

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-448

  Jia, Zhong Wei ^a,b   Tang, Gong You ^c   Jin, Zhen ^d   Dye, Christopher ^e   Vlas, Sake J ^f   Li, Xiao Wen ^g   Feng, Dan ^b   Fang, Li Qun ^b   Zhao, Wen Juan ^b   Cao, Wu Chun ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Endemic equilibrium; Global asymptotic stability; Immigrant; Threshold parameter; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 41149159554     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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