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. 1981 Mar;11(3):311-8.
doi: 10.1007/BF00276899.

Epidemics in competition

I W Saunders

Epidemics in competition

I W Saunders. J Math Biol. 1981 Mar.

Abstract

When two or more epidemic agents are simultaneously present in a population, they may interact to increase or decrease each other's effectiveness. One form of interaction is "competition" where each agent confers immunity to the others. Such competition occurs, for example, between different strains of myxomatosis in rabbit populations. We consider some consequences of introducing competition into mathematical epidemic models. Both deterministic and stochastic simple epidemic models are examined. In either case the conclusions are similar: the faster spreading epidemic has a considerable advantage.

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