Modeling Importations and Exportations of Infectious Diseases via Travelers

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 185-209

  Lopez, Luis Fernandez ^a,b   Amaku, Marcos ^a   Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra ^a   Quam, Mikkel ^c   Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento ^a,d   Struchiner, Claudio José ^e   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^f,g   Massad, Eduardo ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^f LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Singapore)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infectious disease exportation; Infectious disease importation; Modeling; Risk; Travelers

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENGUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENGUE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRAVEL;

EID: 84959254013     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-015-0135-z     Document Type: Article

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