Balancing detection and eradication for control of epidemics: sudden oak death in mixed-species stands.
Culling of infected individuals is a widely used measure for the control of several plant and animal pathogens but culling first requires detection of often cryptically-infected hosts. In this paper, we address the problem of how to allocate resources between detection and culling when the budget fo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-09-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2939030?pdf=render |