Modeling spatial spread of communicable diseases involving animal hosts
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چکیده
In this chapter, we review some previous studies on modeling spatial spread of specific communicable diseases involving animal hosts. Reaction-diffusion equations are used to model these diseases due to movement of animal hosts. Selected topics include the transmission of rabies in fox populations (Källen et al., 1984; Källen et al., 1985; Murray et al., 1986), dengue (Takahashi et al., 2005), West Nile virus (Lewis et al., 2006; Ou & Wu, 2006), hantavirus spread in mouse populations (Abramson and Kenkre, 2002), Lyme disease (Caraco et al., 2002), and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) (Fitzgibbon et al., 1995; Hilker et al., 2007).
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