The distribution of district-level leprosy incidence in India is geometric-stable, consistent with subcriticality

Mathematical models predict that the community-level incidence of a controlled infectious disease across a region approaches a geometric distribution. This could hold over larger regions, if new cases remain proportional to existing cases. Leprosy has been disappearing for centuries, making an excel...

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Main Authors: Thomas M. Lietman, Lee Worden, Fengchen Liu, Travis C. Porco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-09-01
Series:Epidemics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436516300652