An agent-based model driven by tropical rainfall to understand the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of a chikungunya outbreak

Acta Tropica

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-73

  Dommar, Carlos J ^a   Lowe, Rachel ^a   Robinson, Marguerite ^a   Rodó, Xavier ^a  

^a Climate Dynamics and Impacts Unit Institut Català de Ciències del Clima IC3   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Asymptomatic; Chikungunya; Computational epidemiology; Spatio temporal; Urban scale free network

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHIKUNGUNYA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUAL BASED POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TROPIC CLIMATE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ASYMPTOMATIC; CHIKUNGUNYA; COMPUTATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; URBAN SCALE-FREE NETWORK;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; RAIN; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84888205266     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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