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Stage‐Structured Infection Transmission and a Spatial Epidemic: A Model for Lyme Disease
1 Sept 2002
Abstract excerpt
A greater understanding of the rate at which emerging disease advances spatially has both ecological and applied significance. Analyzing the spread of vector-borne disease can be relatively complex when the vector's acquisition of a pathogen and subsequent transmission to a host occur in different life stages. A contemporary example is Lyme disease. A long-lived tick vector acquires infection during the larval...
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