Effects of abundance on infection in natural populations: Field voles and cowpox virus

Epidemics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-46

  Begon, Michael ^a   Telfer, Sandra ^a   Burthe, Sarah ^a   Lambin, Xavier ^b   Smith, Matthew J ^c   Paterson, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Transfer function; Transmission; Wildlife; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARVICOLINAE; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; ECOSYSTEM; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 63149178645     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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