Control fast or control smart: When should invading pathogens be controlled?

The intuitive response to an invading pathogen is to start disease management as rapidly as possible, since this would be expected to minimise the future impacts of disease. However, since more spread data become available as an outbreak unfolds, processes underpinning pathogen transmission can almo...

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Main Authors: Robin N Thompson, Christopher A Gilligan, Nik J Cunniffe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5833286?pdf=render