On the role of human mobility in the spread of cholera epidemics: Towards an epidemiological movement ecology

Ecohydrology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 531-540

  Mari, Lorenzo ^a   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^a   Righetto, Lorenzo ^a   Casagrandi, Renato ^b   Gatto, Marino ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gravity model; Mobility restriction; Network model; Sensitivity analysis; Waterborne disease

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PROPAGATION; GRAVITY MODEL; HUMAN MOBILITY; HUMAN MOVEMENTS; NETWORK MODELS; ORIGINAL MODEL; REGIONAL PATTERN; RESTRICTION POLICY; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; TWO-LAYER NETWORK; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER-BORNE DISEASE;

DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MOBILITY; PATHOGEN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84867398335     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.262     Document Type: Article

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