MathematicsBiologyMedicine
O. Diekmann, J. Heesterbeek, J. Metz
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It is shown that in certain special cases one can easily compute or estimate the expected number of secondary cases produced by a typical infected individual during its entire period of infectiousness in a completely susceptible population.
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DIEKMANN, O.; HEESTERBEEK, J.; METZ, J. On the definition and the computation of the basic reproduction ratio r0 in models for infectious diseases in heterogeneous populations. JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY, 1990, 28: 365–382.