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Title
The fitting of general force-of-infection models to wildlife disease prevalence data
Author(s)
Heisey, D.H., D.O. Joly, and F. Messier
Published
2006
Publisher
Ecology
Abstract
In order to design and implement control strategies for infectious wildlife diseases, researchers need to evaluate the disease’s pervasiveness in population, a measurement that can be represented by a variety of parameters. This study introduces the parameters of cumulative incidence, apparent prevalence, and force of infection and the resulting models in an ecological context. It further illustrates how they can be applied to understand and address basic epidemiological questions, using a model system of bovine tuberculosis in bison in Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada.
Full Citation
Heisey, D.H., D.O. Joly, and F. Messier, 2006. The fitting of general force-of-infection models to wildlife disease prevalence data. Ecology 87:2356-2365
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