Host-pathogen time series data in wildlife support a transmission function between density and frequency dependence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7905-7909

  Smith, Matthew J ^a   Telfer, Sandra ^b   Kallio, Eva R ^b   Burthe, Sarah ^c   Cook, Alex R ^d   Lambin, Xavier ^e   Begon, Michael ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cowpox; Disease; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Population cycles

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE MODEL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION RATE; NATURAL HOST; NATURAL POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COWPOX; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COWPOX VIRUS;

EID: 66049114501     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809145106     Document Type: Article

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