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Sub-spreading events limit the reliable elimination of heterogeneous epidemics

We show that sub-spreading events, i.e. transmission events in which an infection propagates to few or no individuals, can be surprisingly important for defining the lifetime of an infectious disease epidemic and hence its waiting time to elimination or fade-out, measured from the time-point of its...

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Autor principal: Parag, Kris V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8371363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34404230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0444