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Disease dynamics over very different time-scales: foot-and-mouth disease and scrapie on the network of livestock movements in the UK

We analyse the relationship between the network of livestock movements in the UK and the dynamics of two diseases: foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), which has an incubation period of days, and scrapie, which incubates over years. For FMD, the time-scale of expected epidemics is similar to the time-scale...

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Autores principales: Kao, Rowland R, Green, Darren M, Johnson, Jethro, Kiss, Istvan Z
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1975769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17698478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2007.1129