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Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission: mechanisms and methodology
2016-10-01
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Heterogeneity in the ability of hosts to transmit pathogens is among the most fundamental concepts in disease dynamics and has major implications for disease control strategies. The number of secondary infections produced by an infected individual is a function of three components: an individual's infectiousness, the rate at which it contacts susceptible individuals and the duration of infection. Individual‐level...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9deba097-cd79-51e9-917c-0106068da5b4
- DOI
- 10.1111/1365-2435.12645