Open AccessIntroduction. Cross-scale influences on epidemiological dynamics: from genes to ecosystems
Author(s) -
Louise Matthews,
Daniel T. Haydon
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the royal society interface
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1742-5689
pISSN - 1742-5662
DOI - 10.1098/rsif.2007.1173
Subject(s) - ecosystem , scale (ratio) , computational biology , dynamics (music) , biology , ecology , geography , physics , cartography , acoustics
At the most fundamental level, the dynamics of infectious diseases are determined by transmission between infected and susceptible individuals: who infects who, and how often. Ironically, this is a level of organization at which studying epidemiology is hard. Data on who infects who are difficult to
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