Decreasing stochasticity through enhanced seasonality in measles epidemics

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 727-739

  Mantilla Beniers, N B ^a   Bjornstad O N ^b,d   Grenfell, B T ^b,d   Rohani, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; Epidemiology; Measles; Resonance; Seasonality; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

BIRTH RATES; DISEASE ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARAMETER REGIMES; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TRANSMISSION RATES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; HOST; HUMAN; MEASLES; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951675824     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0317     Document Type: Article

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