Decelerating spread of west nile virus by percolation in a heterogeneous urban landscape

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Magori, Krisztian ^a   Bajwa, Waheed I ^b   Bowden, Sarah ^a   Drake, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; SOLVENTS; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; VECTORS; VIRUSES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

GLOBAL POPULATION; HUMAN HEALTH; NEW YORK CITY; SPATIAL SCALE; SPEED OF SPREADS; TRAVELLING WAVES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN LANDSCAPE; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

PATHOGENS;

ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIRD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH; HUMAN; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW YORK CITY; URBAN HEALTH; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79960954609     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002104     Document Type: Article

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