Coupling Within-Host and Between-Host Infectious Diseases Models
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Coupling Within-Host and Between-Host Infectious Diseases Models
Biological processes occur at distinct but interlinked scales of organization. Yet, mathematical models are often focused on a single scale. Recently, there has been a significant interest in creating and using models that link the withinhost dynamics and population level dynamics of infectious diseases. These types of multi-scale models, called immuno-epidemiological models, fall in four categ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BIOMATH
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1314-7218,1314-684X
DOI: 10.11145/j.biomath.2015.10.091