Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence

Population-level analyses often use average quantities to describe heterogeneous systems, particularly when variation does not arise from identifiable groups(1,2). A prominent example, central to our current understanding of epidemic spread, is the basic reproductive number, R(0), which is defined a...

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Autores principales: Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Schreiber, S. J., Kopp, P. E., Getz, W. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16292310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature04153