Simulating spread of Bluetongue Virus by flying vectors between hosts on pasture

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Græsboll, Kaare ^a   Bodker, René ^a   Enoe, Claes ^a   Christiansen, Lasse E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VIROLOGY; WIND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 84870787688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00863     Document Type: Article

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