Scabies in residential care homes: Modelling, inference and interventions for well-connected population sub-units
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Scabies in residential care homes: Modelling, inference and interventions for well-connected population sub-units.
In the context of an ageing population, understanding the transmission of infectious diseases such as scabies through well-connected sub-units of the population, such as residential care homes, is particularly important for the design of efficient interventions to mitigate against the effects of those diseases. Here, we present a modelling methodology based on the efficient solution of a large-...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Computational Biology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006046