Epidemic cholera spreads like wildfire

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Roy, Manojit ^a,b   Zinck, Richard D ^a,d   Bouma, Menno J ^c   Pascual, Mercedes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d BMW Car IT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INDIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84892710521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03710     Document Type: Article

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