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SUBMITTER: Routledge I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018772 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Routledge Isobel I Chevéz José Eduardo Romero JER Cucunubá Zulma M ZM Rodriguez Manuel Gomez MG Guinovart Caterina C Gustafson Kyle B KB Schneider Kammerle K Walker Patrick G T PGT Ghani Azra C AC Bhatt Samir S
Nature communications 20180626 1
In 2016 the World Health Organization identified 21 countries that could eliminate malaria by 2020. Monitoring progress towards this goal requires tracking ongoing transmission. Here we develop methods that estimate individual reproduction numbers and their variation through time and space. Individual reproduction numbers, R<sub>c</sub>, describe the state of transmission at a point in time and differ from mean reproduction numbers, which are averages of the number of people infected by a typica ...[more]