The effect of waning immunity on long-term behaviour of stochastic models for the spread of infection

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 527-544

  Clancy, Damian ^a   Mendy, Sang Taphou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cumulant equations; Diffusion approximation; Moment closure; Quasi stationary distribution; Stochastic infection model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77955088058     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-009-0313-4     Document Type: Article

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