The interaction between seasonality and pulsed interventions against malaria in their effects on the reproduction number.

The basic reproduction number (R0) is an important quantity summarising the dynamics of an infectious disease, as it quantifies how much effort is needed to control transmission. The relative change in R0 due to an intervention is referred to as the effect size. However malaria and other diseases ar...

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Main Author: Jamie T Griffin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4295870?pdf=render