Revisiting the basic reproductive number for malaria and its implications for malaria control

The prospects for the success of malaria control depend, in part, on the basic reproductive number for malaria, R0. Here, we estimate R 0 in a novel way for 121 African populations, and thereby increase the number of R0 estimates for malaria by an order of magnitude. The estimates range from around...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Smith, D, McKenzie, F, Snow, R, Hay, S
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2007