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Structure in the variability of the basic reproductive number (R0) for Zika epidemics in the Pacific islands
29 Nov 2016
Abstract excerpt
Before the outbreak that reached the Americas in 2015, Zika virus (ZIKV) circulated in Asia and the Pacific: these past epidemics can be highly informative on the key parameters driving virus transmission, such as the basic reproduction number (R0). We compare two compartmental models with different mosquito representations, using surveillance and seroprevalence data for several ZIKV outbreaks in Pacific islands...
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