Discrete Epidemic Models with Arbitrary Stage Distributions and Applications to Disease Control

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1716-1746

  Hernandez Ceron, Nancy ^a   Feng, Zhilan ^a   Castillo Chavez, Carlos ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily distributed disease durations; Control reproduction number; Discrete time model; Epidemics; Final epidemic size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PATIENT CARE; STATISTICS;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIDEMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATIENT ISOLATION; QUARANTINE;

EID: 84885064579     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-013-9866-x     Document Type: Article

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