Exploring the relationship between incidence and the average age of infection during seasonal epidemics

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2009.06.008MaRDI QIDQ1625860zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Virginia E. Pitzer, Marc Lipsitch

Publication date 26 November 2018

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2745250

zbMATH Keywords

age distributionepidemic modelseasonality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical geography and demography (91D20) Epidemiology (92D30)

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