Optimizing spatial and seasonal deployment of vaccination campaigns to eliminate wildlife rabies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1776, 2019, Pages

  Baker, Laurie ^a   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a   Müller, Thomas ^b   Freuling, Conrad ^b   Hampson, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elimination; Endgame; Fox rabies; Oral rabies vaccination; Wildlife vaccination

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; OPTIMIZATION; RABIES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VACCINATION; VIRAL DISEASE;

GERMANY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85065447652     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0280     Document Type: Article

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