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Introducing the Outbreak Threshold in Epidemiology

When a pathogen is rare in a host population, there is a chance that it will die out because of stochastic effects instead of causing a major epidemic. Yet no criteria exist to determine when the pathogen increases to a risky level, from which it has a large chance of dying out, to when a major outb...

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Autores principales: Hartfield, Matthew, Alizon, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23785276
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003277