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Threshold conditions for infection persistence in complex host-vectors interactions
1 Nov 2002
Abstract excerpt
As classically defined by Macdonald in the early 1950s, for the case of diseases with one vector and one host, the Basic Reproduction Number, R0, is defined as the number of secondary infections caused by a single infective of the same type (vector or host) during its infectiousness period in an entirely susceptible population. In the case of a disease which has one vector and one host, it is easy to show that R0...
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