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Revisiting the Basic Reproductive Number for Malaria and Its Implications for Malaria Control

The prospects for the success of malaria control depend, in part, on the basic reproductive number for malaria, R (0). Here, we estimate R (0) in a novel way for 121 African populations, and thereby increase the number of R (0) estimates for malaria by an order of magnitude. The estimates range from...

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Autores principales: Smith, David L, McKenzie, F. Ellis, Snow, Robert W, Hay, Simon I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17311470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050042