Drug resistance or re-emergence? Simulating equine parasites

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Jie ^a   Vidyashankar, Anand ^b   Nielsen, Martin K ^c  

^a Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

^b George Mason School of Management   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Equine parasite; Re emergence; Selective therapy; Statisticalmodel; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC MODELS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

DRUG RESISTANCE; PARASITE; SELECTIVE THERAPY; STATISTICALMODEL; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84911482711     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 15581195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2627736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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