Invasion and persistence of infectious agents in fragmented host populations.

One of the important questions in understanding infectious diseases and their prevention and control is how infectious agents can invade and become endemic in a host population. A ubiquitous feature of natural populations is that they are spatially fragmented, resulting in relatively homogeneous loc...

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Main Authors: Marieke Jesse, Rupert Mazzucco, Ulf Dieckmann, Hans Heesterbeek, Johan A J Metz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21980339/?tool=EBI