Introducing the outbreak threshold in epidemiology.
When a pathogen is rare in a host population, there is a chance that it will die out because of stochastic effects instead of causing a major epidemic. Yet no criteria exist to determine when the pathogen increases to a risky level, from which it has a large chance of dying out, to when a major outb...
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Autores principales: | Matthew Hartfield, Samuel Alizon |
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Lenguaje: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/dd510a917f0a4be4a7d6517f34b64b99 |
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