Estimating the force of infection from prevalence data : infectious disease modelling.
By knowing the incidence of an infectious disease, we can ascertain the high risk factors of the disease as well as the e ectiveness of awareness programmes and treatment strategies. Since the work of Hugo Muench in 1934, many methods of estimating the force of infection have been developed, each wi...
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| Language: | en_ZA |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11116 |