From superspreaders to disease hotspots: Linking transmission across hosts and space

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 75-82

  Paull, Sara H ^a   Song, Sejin ^a   McClure, Katherine M ^a,b   Sackett, Loren C ^a   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^b   Johnson, Pieter T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LITERATURE REVIEW; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SOCIAL HISTORY; TYPHOID; WOMENS HEALTH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84858671438     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/110111     Document Type: Review

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