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Migration induced epidemics: dynamics of flux-based multipatch models

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Date Issued:
2004
Title: Migration induced epidemics: dynamics of flux-based multipatch models.
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Name(s): Liebovitch, Larry S., creator
Schwartz, Ira B., creator
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 2004
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Language(s): English
Identifier: 165227 (digitool), FADT165227 (IID), fau:2069 (fedora), 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.09.071 (doi)
FAU Department/College: Department of Psychology Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Note(s): Classical disease models use a mass action term as the interaction between infected and susceptible people in separate patches. We derive the equations when this interaction is a migration of people between patches. The results model what happens when a new population is moved into a region with endemic disease.
This manuscript is a version of an article published in Physics Letters A v.332, no.3-4(15 November 2004) p. 256-267 http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Subject(s): Communicable diseases--Epidemiology--Mathematical models
Emerging infectious diseases
Epidemiologic Methods
Epidemiology
Biomathematics
Medicine-Mathematics
Dynamics-Mathematical models
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165227
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2004.09.071
Restrictions on Access: ©2004 Elsevier B.V.
Host Institution: FAU

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