On spatially explicit models of cholera epidemics

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 321-333

  Bertuzzo, E ^a   Casagrandi, R ^b   Gatto, M ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^c   Rinaldo, A ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optimal channel network and Peano network; Reproduction number; Scaling laws; SIR like models; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMPARTMENTAL MODEL; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DISEASE DYNAMICS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIXES; EPIDEMIC SPREADING; LOCAL COMMUNITY; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; NETWORK LINKS; OPTIMAL CHANNEL NETWORK AND PEANO NETWORK; OPTIMAL CHANNELS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION SIZES; POWER LAW; PROPAGATION SPEED; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REGULAR LATTICE; REPRODUCTION NUMBER; RIVER NETWORK; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; SPEED OF PROPAGATION; TIME-SCALES; TRAVELLING FRONT; TRAVELLING WAVES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER-BORNE PATHOGENS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHOLERA; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 74049134775     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0204     Document Type: Article

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