Modelling cholera transmission dynamics in the presence of limited resources

Farai Nyabadza1, Jennifer Mawunyo Aduamah2, Josiah Mushanyu3

  • 1Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa.

BMC Research Notes
|August 3, 2019
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