Practice of Epidemiology When Is Quarantine a Useful Control Strategy for Emerging Infectious Diseases?
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1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 2 Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 4 Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 5 Current affiliation: Department of Limnology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf, Switzerland.
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