Who acquires infection from whom and how? Disentangling multi-host and multimode transmission dynamics in the ‘elimination’ era

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1719, 2017, Pages

  Webster, Joanne P ^a   Borlase, Anna ^a   Rudge, James W ^b,c  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Control; Dynamics; Multi host; Multimode; Pathogen; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST RANGE; INFECTIVITY; PATHOGEN;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENT; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 85015248779     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0091     Document Type: Review

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