Assessing the potential of pre-exposure vaccination and chemoprophylaxis in the control of lymphatic filariasis

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2014.11.018MaRDI QIDQ902864zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claver P. Bhunu

Publication date 4 January 2016

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2014.11.018

zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationsepidemiological modelthreshold parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical epidemiology (92C60) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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