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Estimates of the reproduction number for seasonal, pandemic, and zoonotic influenza: a systematic review of the literature

BACKGROUND: The potential impact of an influenza pandemic can be assessed by calculating a set of transmissibility parameters, the most important being the reproduction number (R), which is defined as the average number of secondary cases generated per typical infectious case. METHODS: We conducted...

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Autores principales: Biggerstaff, Matthew, Cauchemez, Simon, Reed, Carrie, Gambhir, Manoj, Finelli, Lyn
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/PMC4169819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25186370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-480