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Birth–Death and other Models for Microbial Infection

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  1. Department of Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, W.C.I

    PETER ARMITAGE

  2. Guinness–Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, S.W.I

    G. G. MEYNELL

  3. Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

    TREVOR WILLIAMS

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