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An epidemic can be defined as a change in disease (incidence or severity) in a host population over time and space (Kranz 1974b). The fundamental way of depicting a plant disease epidemic is to plot disease level at several times or distances. The plot of disease versus time, the disease progress curve, summarizes the interaction of pathogen, host, and environment in disease development (Van der Plank, 1963; Kranz, 1974a, 1978). Whether an investigator is interested in understanding an epidemic process or merely wishes to compare two or more epidemics, disease progress curves must be prepared, quantified, and analyzed.
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Madden, L.V., Campbell, C.L. (1990). Nonlinear Disease Progress Curves. In: Kranz, J. (eds) Epidemics of Plant Diseases. Ecological Studies, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75398-5_6
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