Using age of infection models to derive an explicit expression for Ro

Using a multiple stage age of infection model, we derive an expression for the basic reproduction number, Ro. We apply this method to find Ro in analogous treatment models. We find, in the model without treatment, Ro depends only on the mean infective period, and not on the infective distribution. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Christine K.
Language:en
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
Subjects:
TB
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/447