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Revisiting the basic reproductive number for malaria and its implications for malaria control
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The prospects for the success of malaria control depend, in part, on the basic reproductive number for malaria, R0. Here, we estimate R0 in a novel way for 121 African populations, and thereby increase the number of R0 estimates for malaria by an order of magnitude. The estimates range from around one to more than 3,000. We also consider malaria transmission and control in finite human populations, of size H. We show that classic formulas approximate the expected number of mosquitoes that cou...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher's version
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- 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050042
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Authors
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+ Bryan T. Grenfell
Institution:
"Pennsylvania State University, United States of America"
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Funding
+ "Wellcome Trust", "Kenyan Medical Research Institute"
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Funding agency for:
Robert W. Snow
Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- e42
- Publication date:
- 2007-03-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1545-7885
- ISSN:
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1544-9173
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uuid:8c23781f-78ab-4fb5-8d54-727bf8b303de
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- ora:991
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- English
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- The authors
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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Citation: Smith, D. L. et al. (2007). "Revisiting the basic reproductive number for malaria and its implications for malaria control". PLoS Biology, 5 (3), e42. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050042
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