Figure 1.

Different states of the SEIR infection model, to simulate the progress of and epidemic in a human population. LPi: latency period, IPi: infectious period, ti: first day that an individual is exposed to the virus for the first time, xLP: number of days for an exposed individual to become infective, and xIP: number of days for an individual to recover from the disease.

Perez and Dragicevic International Journal of Health Geographics 2009 8:50   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-8-50
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