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JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 5-6, Pages 803-816Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-007-0112-8
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basic reproduction number; emerging infectious disease; epidemics
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We investigate the merit of deriving an estimate of the basic reproduction number R-0 early in an outbreak of an (emerging) infection from estimates of the incidence and generation interval only. We compare such estimates of R-0 with estimates incorporating additional model assumptions, and determine the circumstances under which the different estimates are consistent. We show that one has to be careful when using observed exponential growth rates to derive an estimate of R-0, and we quantify the discrepancies that arise.
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