Quasi-Neutral theory of epidemic outbreaks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Pinto, Oscar A ^a,b   Muñoz, Miguel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL PATHOGEN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EPIDEMIC; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOMENOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; QUASI NEUTRAL THEORY; RATING SCALE; STOLLEN JANSEN MODEL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; TIME;

EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960091655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021946     Document Type: Article

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