Exploration of the parameter space in an agent-based model of tuberculosis spread: Emergence of drug resistance in developing vs developed countries

International Journal of Modern Physics C

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Espindola, Aquino L ^a   Girardi, Daniel ^a   Penna, Thadeu J P ^a,b   Bauch, Chris T ^c   Martinez, Alexandre S ^b,d   Cabella, Brenno C T ^d  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cellular automata; Computational epidemiology; stochastic models; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863446021     PISSN: 01291831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183112500465     Document Type: Article

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