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Malaria
Research from N. Chitnis et al has provided new information about malaria
October 7th, 2008
According to a study from Basel, Switzerland, "We perform sensitivity analyses on a mathematical model of malaria transmission to determine the relative importance of model parameters to disease transmission and prevalence. We compile two sets of baseline parameter values: one for areas of high transmission and one for low transmission." "We compute sensitivity indices of the reproductive number (which measures initial disease transmission) and the endemic equilibrium point (which measures disease prevalence) to the parameters at the baseline values. We find that in areas of low transmission, the reproductive number and the equilibrium proportion of infectious humans...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-10-07)
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