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Model equations

CC Clara Champagne

Last updated date: May 2, 2020 Views: 1108 Forks: 0

original An abbreviated version of this protocol was published in eLife in Nov, 2016
Structure in the variability of the basic reproductive number (R0) for Zika epidemics in the Pacific islands
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The calculations are detailed in the method section, in the paragraph called "R0 calculation". The methodology is well detailed in quantitative epidemiology textbooks and well-explained examples can be found in

  1. P. van den Driessche & J. Watmough, "Reproduction numbers and sub-threshold endemic equilibriam for compartmental models of disease transmission", Mathematical Biosciences 2002

  2. P. van den Driessche, "Reproduction numbers of infectious disease models", Infectious disease modelling, 2017

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  1. Champagne, C(2020). Model equations. Bio-protocol Preprint. bio-protocol.org/prep294.
  2. Champagne, C., Salthouse, D. G., Paul, R., Cao-Lormeau, V., Roche, B. and Cazelles, B.(2016). Structure in the variability of the basic reproductive number (R0) for Zika epidemics in the Pacific islands. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19874

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