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  <dc:contributor>J. Bebak</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>P. E. McAllister</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>G. Smith</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2000</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Experimentally initiated epidemics of infectious pancreatic necrosis in rainbow-trout fry were analyzed using a modification of the standard mathematical model for a simple propagative epidemic. Contrary to expectations, the value of the transmission parameter (&lt;i&gt;β&lt;/i&gt;) was inversely related to initial density of susceptible hosts. This anomaly can be explained if we assume that the experimental epidemics were point-source rather than propagative epidemics. The implications of this conclusion for modeling experimental and natural epidemics are discussed.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/S0167-5877(00)00176-8</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Experimental infectious pancreatic necrosis infections: propagative or point-source epidemic?</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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