Modeling spatial spread of infectious diseases with a fixed latent period in a spatially continuous domain

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2048-2079

  Li, Jing ^a,b   Zou, Xingfu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Latent period; Non local infection; Spread speed; Traveling waves; Wave speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350375276     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-009-9457-z     Document Type: Article

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