Dose-dependent infection rates of parasites produce the Allee effect in epidemiology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1488, 2002, Pages 271-279

  Regoes, Roland R ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a   Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Breakpoint; Dose effect; Epidemiological model; Inoculum size; Microparasites

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 53149149076     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1816     Document Type: Article

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