Simulating devil facial tumour disease outbreaks across empirically derived contact networks

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 447-456

  Hamede, Rodrigo ^a   Bashford, Jim ^a   Jones, Menna ^a   McCallum, Hamish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact heterogeneity; Contact networks; Epidemiological models; Extinction; Network model; R 0; Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease; Transmission; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY; TUMOR; WILD POPULATION;

SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 84859159319     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02103.x     Document Type: Article

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