Improving estimates of waning immunity rates in stochastic SIRS models with a hierarchical framework

As most disease causing pathogens require transmission from an infectious individual to a susceptible individual, continued persistence of the pathogen within the population requires the replenishment of susceptibles through births, immigration, or waning immunity.Consider the introduction of an unk...

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Main Authors: Punya Alahakoon, James M. McCaw, Peter G. Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2023-12-01
Series:Infectious Disease Modelling
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042723000878