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Time-dependence and Count-dependence in Microbial Infection

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The predictions of two forms of the birth–death model are compared with observations made on experimental bacterial Infections.

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

    TREVOR WILLIAMS

  2. Guinness-Lister Research Unit, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, S.W.1

    G. G. MEYNELL

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WILLIAMS, T., MEYNELL, G. Time-dependence and Count-dependence in Microbial Infection. Nature 214, 473–475 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214473a0

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