Understanding the persistence of measles: Reconciling theory, simulation and observation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1489, 2002, Pages 335-343

  Keeling, Matt J ^a   Grenfell, Bryan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood disease; Extinctions; Mathematical models; Seasonality; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE SPREAD; MEASLES; METHODOLOGY; SEASONALITY;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; OBSERVATION; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORY;

EID: 53149094352     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1898     Document Type: Article

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