Disease momentum: Estimating the reproduction number in the presence of superspreading

A primary quantity of interest in the study of infectious diseases is the average number of new infections that an infected person produces. This so-called reproduction number has significant implications for the disease progression. There has been increasing literature suggesting that superspreadin...

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Main Authors: Kory D. Johnson, Mathias Beiglböck, Manuel Eder, Annemarie Grass, Joachim Hermisson, Gudmund Pammer, Jitka Polechová, Daniel Toneian, Benjamin Wölfl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021-01-01
Series:Infectious Disease Modelling
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042721000270