A hybrid modeling approach to simulating foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in Australian livestock

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Bradhurst, Richard A ^a   Roche, Sharon E ^b   East, Iain J ^b   Kwan, Paul ^a   Graeme Garner, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Department of Agriculture   (Australia)

Author keywords

AADIS; Epidemiological model; FMD; Hybrid model; Spatiotemporal model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989249655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00017     Document Type: Article

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