Individual-based modeling of tuberculosis in a user-friendly interface: understanding the epidemiological role of population heterogeneity in a city

Individual-based modeling of tuberculosis in a user-friendly interface: understanding the epidemiological role of population heterogeneity in a city

For millennia tuberculosis has shown a successful strategy to survive, making it one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. This resilient behavior is based not only on remaining hidden in most of the infected population, but also by showing slow evolution in most sick people. The course of t...

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Main Authors: Clara ePrats, Cristina eMontañola-Sales, Joan Francesc eGilabert, Joaquim eValls, Josep eCasanovas-Garcia, Cristina eVilaplana, Pere-Joan eCardona, Daniel eLopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Contact Tracing
Epidemiology
Tuberculosis
Risk factors
immigrant
Individual-based model
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01564/full

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