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Research from University of Rostock provides new data on life sciences
December 17th, 2008
"We present a novel SEIR (susceptible-exposure-infective-recovered) model that is suitable for modeling the eradication of diseases by mass vaccination or control of diseases by case isolation combined with contact tracing, incorporating the vaccine efficacy or the control efficacy into the model," researchers in Rostock, Germany report. "Moreover, relying on this novel SEIR model and some probabilistic arguments, we have found four formulas that are suitable for estimating the basic reproductive numbers R-0 in terms of the ratio of the mean infectious period to the mean latent period of a disease," wrote S.Z. Huang and colleagues, University of Rostock. ...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-17)
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