Measles metapopulation dynamics: A gravity model for epidemiological coupling and dynamics

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-281

  Xia, Yingcun ^a   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^b   Grenfell, Bryan T ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity models; Measles; Phase difference; SIR model; TSIR model; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VIROLOGY;

DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MEASLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORBILLIVIRUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 4143075752     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422341     Document Type: Article

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