Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R0) [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 The basic reproduction number (R0), also called the basic reproduction ratio or rate or the basic reproductive rate, is an epidemiologic metric used to describe the contagiousness or transmissibility of infectious agents.
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Estimating the basic reproduction number at the beginning of an outbreak. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 We compare several popular methods of estimating the basic reproduction number, R0, focusing on the early stages of an epidemic, and assuming weekly reports of new infecteds.
Sawitree Boonpatcharanon +2 more
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Dynamic mapping of dengue basic reproduction number
Results in Physics, 2021 We developed a method to produce time-varying maps for dengue transmission risk, using the Ross-Macdonald framework and differential equations to estimate spatially the basic reproduction number (R0) of a vector-borne disease.
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Estimating the basic reproduction number for COVID-19 in Western Europe. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectiveTo estimate the basic reproduction number (R0) for COVID-19 in Western Europe.MethodsData (official statistics) on the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 at the start of the outbreak (before any confinement rules were declared) were retrieved in ...
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Deterministic epidemic models overestimate the basic reproduction number of observed outbreaks [PDF]
Infectious Disease ModellingThe basic reproduction number, R0, is a well-known quantifier of epidemic spread. However, a class of existing methods for estimating R0 from incidence data early in the epidemic can lead to an over-estimation of this quantity.
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Basic Reproduction Number of Chikungunya Virus Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We estimated the weighted mean basic reproduction number (R0) of chikungunya virus based on outbreak size. R0 was 3.4 (95% CI 2.4–4.2) and varied for 2 primary chikungunya mosquito vectors: 4.1 (95% CI 1.5–6.6) for Aedes aegypti and 2.8 (95% CI 1.8–3.8 ...
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Why the Spectral Radius? An intuition-building introduction to the basic reproduction number. [PDF]
Bull Math Biol, 2022 The basic reproduction number R0\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin ...
Brouwer AF.
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The study of human monkeypox disease in 2022 using the epidemic models: herd immunity and the basic reproduction number case. [PDF]
Ann Med Surg (Lond), 2023 As of May 2022, a new outbreak of the human monkeypox (MPOX) disease appeared in multiple countries, where the 2022 human MPOX disease spread to more than 109 cases, excluding the suspected cases up to the end of 2022.
Al-Raeei M.
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Rnaught: a web tool for estimating the basic reproduction number [PDF]
BMC Global and Public HealthTatiana Krikella +5 more
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Estimation of the basic reproduction number of Alpha and Delta variants of COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Estimating the basic reproduction number of a pandemic and the changes that appear on this value over time provide a good understanding of the contagious nature of the virus and efficiency of the controlling strategies.
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