Elasticity analysis in epidemiology: An application to tick-borne infections

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1298-1305

  Matser, Amy ^a   Hartemink, Nienke ^a   Heesterbeek, Hans ^a   Galvani, Alison ^b   Davis, Stephen ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophila; Borrelia burgdorferi; Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus; Elasticities; Kyasanur forest disease virus; Next generation matrix; Rickettsia rickettsii; Thogoto virus; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICS; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; IXODIDA; KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; THOGOTO VIRUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70449372134     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01378.x     Document Type: Article

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