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SUBMITTER: Cooper L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718398 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cooper Laura L Kang Su Yun SY Bisanzio Donal D Maxwell Kilama K Rodriguez-Barraquer Isabel I Greenhouse Bryan B Drakeley Chris C Arinaitwe Emmanuel E G Staedke Sarah S Gething Peter W PW Eckhoff Philip P Reiner Robert C RC Hay Simon I SI Dorsey Grant G Kamya Moses R MR Lindsay Steven W SW Grenfell Bryan T BT Smith David L DL
Nature communications 20190902 1
Heterogeneity in transmission is a challenge for infectious disease dynamics and control. An 80-20 "Pareto" rule has been proposed to describe this heterogeneity whereby 80% of transmission is accounted for by 20% of individuals, herein called super-spreaders. It is unclear, however, whether super-spreading can be attributed to certain individuals or whether it is an unpredictable and unavoidable feature of epidemics. Here, we investigate heterogeneous malaria transmission at three sites in Ugan ...[more]