Modelling and simulation of granuloma formation in visceral leishmaniasis

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3052-3059

  Flügge, Anton Jakob ^a   Timmis, Jon ^a   Andrews, Paul ^a   Moore, John ^a   Kaye, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; DYNAMIC PROCESS; GRANULOMA FORMATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IN-VIVO; INFLAMMATORY CELLS; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 70450042505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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