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Genotype-Specific Measles Transmissibility: A Branching Process Analysis.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 3 Apr 2018
Ackley Sarah F, Hacker Jill K, Enanoria Wayne T A, Worden Lee, Blumberg Seth, Porco Travis C, Zipprich Jennifer
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Background: Substantial heterogeneity in measles outbreak sizes may be due to genotype-specific transmissibility. Using a branching process analysis, we characterize differences in measles transmission by estimating the association between genotype and the reproduction number R among postelimination California measles cases during 2000-2015 (400 cases, 165 outbreaks). Methods: Assuming a negative binomial...
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