Measles on the edge: Coastal heterogeneities and infection dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Bharti, Nita ^a   Xia, Yingcun ^b   Bjornstad, Ottar N ^a,c   Grenfell, Bryan T ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; METAPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACCINATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MEASLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; TRANSPORTATION; VACCINATION; WALES;

EID: 44849107502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001941     Document Type: Article

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