Heterogeneities in the transmission of infectious agents: implications for the design of control programs.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 07, 1997

Authors

M E Woolhouse1, C Dye, J F Etard, T Smith, J D Charlwood, G P Garnett, P Hagan, J L Hii, P D Ndhlovu, R J Quinnell, C H Watts, S K Chandiwana, R M Anderson

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1: Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. mejw@vax.ox.ac.uk

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