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...
Main Authors: | Clara ePrats, Cristina eMontañola-Sales, Joan Francesc eGilabert, Joaquim eValls, Josep eCasanovas-Garcia, Cristina eVilaplana, Pere-Joan eCardona, Daniel eLopez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01564/full |
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