Highly dynamic animal contact network and implications on disease transmission

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Shi ^a   White, Brad J ^b   Sanderson, Michael W ^b   Amrine, David E ^b   Ilany, Amiyaal ^c   Lanzas, Cristina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PATHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84897033007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04472     Document Type: Article

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