Estimating human-to-human transmissibility of hepatitis A virus in an outbreak at an elementary school in China, 2011.

Hepatitis A is caused by hepatitis A virus and occurs worldwide. Estimating the transmissibility, which is usually characterized by the basic reproductive number R0, the mean number of secondary infectious cases generated by a single primary infectious case introduced into a totally susceptible popu...

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Main Authors: Xu-Sheng Zhang, Giovanni Lo Iacono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6152969?pdf=render