Simulating the Effects of Landscape Heterogeneity on the Spread of Raccoon Rabies in the Northeastern United States Using a SEI Model

<p> Raccoon rabies in the Northeastern United States rapidly expanded in genetic diversity and spatially from 1977 to 1999 during the Mid-Atlantic outbreak. For a portion this expansion, from 1983 to 1986, the rate of epidemic expansion slowed. This is reflected in a plateau in the effective n...

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Main Author: Mathai, Reyna
Language:EN
Published: University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2016
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