Identifying transmission cycles at the human-animal interface: the role of animal reservoirs in maintaining gambiense human african trypanosomiasis.

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Published in PLoS Comput Biol on January 17, 2013

Authors

Sebastian Funk1, Hiroshi Nishiura, Hans Heesterbeek, W John Edmunds, Francesco Checchi

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. sf7@princeton.edu

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