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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Main Authors: Matthew Hartfield, Samuel Alizon
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/dd510a917f0a4be4a7d6517f34b64b99
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