Breaking beta: Deconstructing the parasite transmission function

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1719, 2017, Pages

  McCallum, Hamish ^a   Fenton, Andy ^b   Hudson, Peter J ^c   Lee, Brian ^d   Levick, Beth ^b   Norman, Rachel ^d   Perkins, Sarah E ^e,f   Viney, Mark ^g   Wilson, Anthony J ^h   Lello, Joanne ^e,f  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Infection; Infectious disease; Modelling; Nonlinearities; Transmission function

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIVITY; NONLINEARITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITISM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85015159197     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0084     Document Type: Article

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