Epidemics with multistrain interactions: the interplay between cross immunity and antibody-dependent enhancement

Simone Bianco1, Leah B Shaw, Ira B Schwartz

  • 1Department of Applied Science, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA. sbianco@wm.edu

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)
|January 12, 2010
PubMed

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