A comparison between two simulation models for spread of foot-and-mouth disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Halasa, Tariq ^a   Boklund, Anette ^a   Stockmarr, Anders ^a   Enøe, Claes ^a   Christiansen, Lasse E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAVIES ANIMAL DISEASE SIMULATION MODEL; DENMARK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HERD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSPREAD PLUS MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SHEEP; SIMULATION; SWINE; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SHEEP DISEASES; SWINE DISEASES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84899880474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092521     Document Type: Article

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