The role of environmental transmission in recurrent avian influenza epidemics.
Avian influenza virus (AIV) persists in North American wild waterfowl, exhibiting major outbreaks every 2-4 years. Attempts to explain the patterns of periodicity and persistence using simple direct transmission models are unsuccessful. Motivated by empirical evidence, we examine the contribution of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-04-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2660440?pdf=render |