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Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R0)
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The basic reproduction number (R 0 ), also called the basic reproduction ratio or rate or the basic reproductive rate, is an epidemiologic metric used to describe the contagiousness or transmissibility of infectious agents.R 0 is affected by numerous biological, sociobehavioral, and environmental factors that govern pathogen transmission and, therefore, is usually estimated with various types of complex mathematical models, which make R 0 easily misrepresented, misinterpreted, and misapplied.R 0 is not a biological constant for a pathogen, a rate over time, or a measure of disease severity, and R 0 cannot be modified through vaccination campaigns.R 0 is rarely measured directly, and modeled R 0 values are dependent on model structures and assumptions.Some R 0 values reported in the scientific literature are likely obsolete.R 0 must be estimated, reported, and applied with great caution because this basic metric is far from simple.
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- Delamater, P. L., Street, E. J., Leslie, T. F., Yang, Y. T., & Jacobsen, K. H.
- Venue
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-4
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- 1080-6040 (ISSN-L)
- 1080-6059
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- W2903293690
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- 94.05
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- journal article
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- en
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