Evaluating the influence of epidemiological parameters and host ecology on the spread of phocine distemper virus through populations of harbour seals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Harris, Catriona M ^a   Travis, Justin M J ^b   Harwood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FORAGING; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SEAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VIRTUAL REALITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOCA; POPULATION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PHOCINE DISTEMPER VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISTEMPER; DISTEMPER VIRUS, PHOCINE; ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOCA; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50549098296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002710     Document Type: Article

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