Breaking beta: deconstructing the parasite transmission function
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Breaking beta: deconstructing the parasite transmission function
Transmission is a fundamental step in the life cycle of every parasite but it is also one of the most challenging processes to model and quantify. In most host-parasite models, the transmission process is encapsulated by a single parameter β Many different biological processes and interactions, acting on both hosts and infectious organisms, are subsumed in this single term. There are, however, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0084