The role of environmental transmission in recurrent avian influenza epidemics.

The role of environmental transmission in recurrent avian influenza epidemics.

Avian influenza virus (AIV) persists in North American wild waterfowl, exhibiting major outbreaks every 2-4 years. Attempts to explain the patterns of periodicity and persistence using simple direct transmission models are unsuccessful. Motivated by empirical evidence, we examine the contribution of...

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Main Authors: Romulus Breban, John M Drake, David E Stallknecht, Pejman Rohani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2660440?pdf=render

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