Rural-urban gradient in seasonal forcing of measles transmission in Niger

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1695, 2010, Pages 2775-2782

  Ferrari, Matthew J ^a   Djibo, Ali ^b   Grais, Rebecca F ^c   Bharti, Nita ^d   Grenfell, Bryan T ^d,e   Bjornstad, Ottar N ^a,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Niger)

^c EPICENTRE   (France)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical community size; Epidemic metapopulation; Niger; Seasonality; TSIR model

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EPIDEMIC; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MEASLES; MEGACITY; METAPOPULATION; PATHOGEN; POPULATION SIZE; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONALITY;

NIGER [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

EID: 77956903730     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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