React or wait: which optimal culling strategy to control infectious diseases in wildlife

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1001-1025

  Bolzoni, Luca ^a,b   Tessoni, Valentina ^c   Groppi, Maria ^c   De Leo, Giulio A ^d  

^a Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Culling; Host demography; Optimal control; SI model; Wildlife diseases

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVENTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TIME FACTORS; VETERINARY;

EID: 84973468859     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-013-0726-y     Document Type: Article

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