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Transmission dynamics of the ongoing chikungunya outbreak in Central Italy: from coastal areas to the metropolitan city of Rome, summer 2017

A large chikungunya outbreak is ongoing in Italy, with a main cluster in the Anzio coastal municipality. With preliminary epidemiological data, and a transmission model using mosquito abundance and biting rates, we estimated the basic reproduction number R(0) at 2.07 (95% credible interval: 1.47–2.5...

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Autores principales: Manica, Mattia, Guzzetta, Giorgio, Poletti, Piero, Filipponi, Federico, Solimini, Angelo, Caputo, Beniamino, della Torre, Alessandra, Rosà, Roberto, Merler, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29113629
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.44.17-00685