The spread of fecally transmitted parasites in socially-structured populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Nunn, Charles L ^a   Thrall, Peter H ^b   Leendertz, Fabian H ^c   Boesch, Christophe ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEFECATION; DISEASE SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FECES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PARASITE; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FECES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 79959713078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021677     Document Type: Article

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