Modeling SARS, west nile virus, pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious diseases: A canadian team's adventure

Modeling And Dynamics Of Infectious Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 36-63

  Brauer, Fred ^a   Wu, Jianhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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