Epidemic enhancement in partially immune populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Pulliam, Juliet R C ^a   Dushoff, Jonathan G ^a,b   Levin, Simon A ^a   Dobson, Andrew P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNITY; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MATHEMATICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

VACCINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VACCINES;

EID: 53249122242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000165     Document Type: Article

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