Reconstruction of disease transmission rates: Applications to measles, dengue, and influenza

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 400, Issue , 2016, Pages 138-153

  Lange, Alexander ^a,b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential equation models; Disease transmission; Infectious disease modeling

Indexed keywords

DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; INFLUENZA; MEASLES; MODELING; MORTALITY; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASLES; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SPANISH INFLUENZA; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; THAILAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VECTOR CONTROL; AEDES; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ENGLAND; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; PANDEMIC; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES; WALES;

AEDES; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DENGUE; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INSECT VECTORS; MEASLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PANDEMICS; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DISEASES; WALES;

EID: 84966359452     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.04.017     Document Type: Article

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