Pathogen transfer through environment-host contact: an agent-based queueing theoretic framework

DOI10.1093/IMAMMB/DQX014MaRDI QIDQ4559651zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shi Chen, Judy Day, Chihoon Lee, Michael Dulin, Cristina Lanzas, Suzanne Lenhart

Publication date 4 December 2018

Published in Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqx014

zbMATH Keywords

agent-based modelenvironment-host contacthealth care contact processmodel frameworkpathogen transfer and decayqueueing theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Epidemiology (92D30)

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