Seasonal host dynamics drive the timing of recurrent epidemics in a wildlife population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1662, 2009, Pages 1603-1610

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cowpox virus; Epidemic; Field vole; Infection; Seasonal; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIC; HOST SPECIFICITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; VIRAL DISEASE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HOST; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; VOLE; WILDLIFE;

COWPOX VIRUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; SEASONS;

EID: 66349108006     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1732     Document Type: Article

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