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SUBMITTER: Champredon D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4707754 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Champredon David D Dushoff Jonathan J
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20151201 1821
The generation interval is the interval between the time when an individual is infected by an infector and the time when this infector was infected. Its distribution underpins estimates of the reproductive number and hence informs public health strategies. Empirical generation-interval distributions are often derived from contact-tracing data. But linking observed generation intervals to the underlying generation interval required for modelling purposes is surprisingly not straightforward, and m ...[more]