Modelling the effect of heterogeneity of shedding on the within herd Coxiella burnetii spread and identification of key parameters by sensitivity analysis

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 130-141

  Courcoul, Aurélie ^a   Monod, Hervé ^b   Nielen, Mirjam ^c   Klinkenberg, Don ^c   Hogerwerf, Lenny ^c   Beaudeau, François ^a   Vergu, Elisabeta ^b  

^a Epidemiology and Risk Analysis in Animal Health   (France)

^b UR341 National Agronomical Research Institute (INRA)   (France)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ANOVA; PCA; Q fever; Stochastic model; Uncertainty and variability

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RUMINANT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRY CATTLE; FECES; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; Q FEVER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VAGINAL MUCUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; Q FEVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VAGINA; ZOONOSES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 79960740228     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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