How mathematical epidemiology became a field of biology: A commentary on Anderson and May (1981) ‘The population dynamics of microparasites and their invertebrate hosts’

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1666, 2015, Pages

  Heesterbeek, J A P ^a   Roberts, M G ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecology; Epidemiology; Infectious diseases; Invertebrates; Mathematical modelling; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVERTEBRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84924300051     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0307     Document Type: Review

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