Modeling the Incubation Period of Inhalational Anthrax
@article{Wilkening2008ModelingTI, title={Modeling the Incubation Period of Inhalational Anthrax}, author={Dean A. Wilkening}, journal={Medical Decision Making}, year={2008}, volume={28}, pages={593 - 605} }
Ever since the pioneering work of Philip Sartwell, the incubation period distribution for infectious diseases is most often modeled using a lognormal distribution. Theoretical models based on underlying disease mechanisms in the host are less well developed. This article modifies a theoretical model originally developed by Brookmeyer and others for the inhalational anthrax incubation period distribution in humans by using a more accurate distribution to represent the in vivo bacterial growth…
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