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Determining the dynamics of influenza transmission by age

BACKGROUND: It is widely accepted that influenza transmission dynamics vary by age; however methods to quantify the reproductive number by age group are limited. We introduce a simple method to estimate the reproductive number by modifying the method originally proposed by Wallinga and Teunis and us...

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Autores principales: White, Laura F, Archer, Brett, Pagano, Marcello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3997935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24656239
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-11-4