Estimating individuals' genetic and non-genetic effects underlying infectious disease transmission from temporal epidemic data.

Individuals differ widely in their contribution to the spread of infection within and across populations. Three key epidemiological host traits affect infectious disease spread: susceptibility (propensity to acquire infection), infectivity (propensity to transmit infection to others) and recoverabil...

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Main Authors: Christopher M Pooley, Glenn Marion, Stephen C Bishop, Richard I Bailey, Andrea B Doeschl-Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008447