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Estimating contact rates in disease ecology: A comparison of methods

2026-06-25

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Wildlife diseases pose significant threats to wildlife populations, livestock, and human health, and understanding disease transmission is critical for outbreak management. Transmission is driven by contact between infected and susceptible individuals. However, we lack a consistent and accurate method for estimating contact rates and require a better understanding of how different methods impact inference. Data co...

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Literature Corpus work: d7594353-087e-5a18-82b7-2fff28aa3aec
DOI: 10.22541/authorea.15005210/v1

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