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SUBMITTER: Nguyen HT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2607388 | biostudies-other | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20080401 21
Understanding the mechanisms that generate oscillations in the incidence of childhood infectious diseases has preoccupied epidemiologists and population ecologists for nearly two centuries. This body of work has generated simple yet powerful explanations for the epidemics of measles and chickenpox, while the dynamics of other infectious diseases, such as whooping cough, have proved more challenging to decipher. A number of authors have, in recent years, proposed that the noisy and somewhat irreg ...[more]