Addressing population heterogeneity and distribution in epidemics models using a cellular automata approach

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  López, Leonardo ^a,b   Burguerner, Germán ^a   Giovanini, Leonardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONTACT TRACING; EPIDEMICS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; QUARANTINE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899587152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-234     Document Type: Article

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