Dynamics of the Force of Infection: Insights from Echinococcus multilocularis Infection in Foxes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lewis, Fraser I ^a   Otero Abad, Belen ^a   Hegglin, Daniel ^a   Deplazes, Peter ^a   Torgerson, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CESTODIASIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FORCE OF INFECTION; FOX; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECOSYSTEM; FOXES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; SEASONS; SWITZERLAND; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84897384260     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002731     Document Type: Article

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