Intervention-based stochastic disease eradication.

Disease control is of paramount importance in public health, with infectious disease extinction as the ultimate goal. Although diseases may go extinct due to random loss of effective contacts where the infection is transmitted to new susceptible individuals, the time to extinction in the absence of...

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Main Authors: Lora Billings, Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero, Brandon Lindley, Ira B Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23940548/?tool=EBI