Chlamydial infection and spatial ascension of the female genital tract: A novel hybrid cellular automata and continuum mathematical model

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-182

  Mallet, Dann G ^a   Heymer, Kelly Jean ^a,b   Rank, Roger G ^c   Wilson, David P ^b,d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ascension of the genital tract; Chlamydia; Diffusion; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES;

EID: 70349655451     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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