Basic reproduction number (English Wikipedia)

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Prater E (July 9, 2022). "Move over, measles: Dominant Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 could be the most infectious viruses known to man". Fortune. Archived from the original on July 11, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2025.

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Hiraoka, Takayuki; Rizi, Abbas K.; Kivelä, Mikko; Saramäki, Jari (2022). "Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily". Physical Review E. 105 (5) L052301. arXiv:2112.07538. Bibcode:2022PhRvE.105e2301H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L052301. PMID 35706197.

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Diekmann O, Heesterbeek JA (2000). "The Basic Reproduction Ratio". Mathematical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Model Building, Analysis and Interpretation. New York: Wiley. pp. 73–98. ISBN 0-471-49241-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization (2001). "History and epidemiology of global smallpox eradication". Smallpox: disease, prevention, and intervention (training course) (Presentation). Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (published August 25, 2014). cdc:27929. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2021.

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Jiles, RB; Fuchs, C; Klevens, RM (September 22, 2000). "Vaccination coverage among children enrolled in Head Start programs or day care facilities or entering school". Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 49 (9): 27–38. PMID 11016876.

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Arcari, Christine M. (2015). "Understanding and Measuring the Dynamics of Infectious Disease Transmission". Vaccinology. pp. 304–318. doi:10.1002/9781118638033.ch18. ISBN 978-0-470-65616-7.
Fraser C, Donnelly CA, Cauchemez S, Hanage WP, Van Kerkhove MD, Hollingsworth TD, et al. (June 2009). "Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings". Science. 324 (5934): 1557–61. Bibcode:2009Sci...324.1557F. doi:10.1126/science.1176062. PMC 3735127. PMID 19433588.
Adam D (July 2020). "A guide to R - the pandemic's misunderstood metric". Nature. 583 (7816): 346–348. Bibcode:2020Natur.583..346A. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02009-w. PMID 32620883.
Delamater PL, Street EJ, Leslie TF, Yang YT, Jacobsen KH (January 2019). "Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R₀)". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 25 (1): 1–4. Bibcode:2019EIDis..25....1D. doi:10.3201/eid2501.171901. PMC 6302597. PMID 30560777.
Fine, P.; Eames, K.; Heymann, D. L. (April 1, 2011). "'Herd Immunity': A Rough Guide". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 52 (7): 911–916. doi:10.1093/cid/cir007. PMID 21427399.
Hiraoka, Takayuki; Rizi, Abbas K.; Kivelä, Mikko; Saramäki, Jari (2022). "Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily". Physical Review E. 105 (5) L052301. arXiv:2112.07538. Bibcode:2022PhRvE.105e2301H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L052301. PMID 35706197.
Vegvari C (2022). "Commentary on the use of the reproduction number R during the COVID-19 pandemic". Stat Methods Med Res. 31 (9): 1675–1685. doi:10.1177/09622802211037079. PMC 9277711. PMID 34569883.
Smith DL, Battle KE, Hay SI, Barker CM, Scott TW, McKenzie FE (April 5, 2012). "Ross, macdonald, and a theory for the dynamics and control of mosquito-transmitted pathogens". PLOS Pathogens. 8 (4) e1002588. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002588. PMC 3320609. PMID 22496640.
Diekmann, O.; Heesterbeek, J.A.P.; Metz, J.A.J. (1990). "On the definition and the computation of the basic reproduction ratio R₀ in models for infectious diseases in heterogeneous populations". Journal of Mathematical Biology. 28 (4). doi:10.1007/BF00178324. hdl:1874/8051.
Garnett GP (February 2005). "Role of herd immunity in determining the effect of vaccines against sexually transmitted disease". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 191 (Suppl 1): S97-106. doi:10.1086/425271. PMID 15627236.
Rodpothong P, Auewarakul P (October 2012). "Viral evolution and transmission effectiveness". World Journal of Virology. 1 (5): 131–4. doi:10.5501/wjv.v1.i5.131. PMC 3782273. PMID 24175217.
Mishra, Bimal Kumar; Haldar, Kaushik (2014). "E-Epidemic Models on the Attack and Defense of Malicious Objects in Networks". Theories and Simulations of Complex Social Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Vol. 52. pp. 117–143. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39149-1_9. ISBN 978-3-642-39148-4.
Li J, Blakeley D, Smith RJ (2011). "The failure of R0". Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2011 527610. doi:10.1155/2011/527610. PMC 3157160. PMID 21860658.
Chowell, G.; Hengartner, N.W.; Castillo-Chavez, C.; Fenimore, P.W.; Hyman, J.M. (2004). "The basic reproductive number of Ebola and the effects of public health measures: The cases of Congo and Uganda". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 229 (1): 119–126. Bibcode:2004JThBi.229..119C. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.006. PMID 15178190.
Ajelli M, Iannelli M, Manfredi P, Ciofi degli Atti ML (March 2008). "Basic mathematical models for the temporal dynamics of HAV in medium-endemicity Italian areas". Vaccine. 26 (13): 1697–707. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.12.058. PMID 18314231.
von Csefalvay, Chris (2023). "Simple compartmental models". Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease. pp. 19–91. doi:10.1016/b978-0-32-395389-4.00011-6. ISBN 978-0-323-95389-4.
Heffernan JM, Smith RJ, Wahl LM (September 2005). "Perspectives on the basic reproductive ratio". Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 2 (4): 281–93. doi:10.1098/rsif.2005.0042. PMC 1578275. PMID 16849186.
Guerra FM, Bolotin S, Lim G, Heffernan J, Deeks SL, Li Y, Crowcroft NS (December 2017). "The basic reproduction number (R₀) of measles: a systematic review". The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 17 (12): e420 – e428. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30307-9. PMID 28757186.
Belcher, Thomas; Dubois, Violaine; Rivera-Millot, Alex; Locht, Camille; Jacob-Dubuisson, Françoise (2021). "Pathogenicity and virulence of Bordetella pertussis and its adaptation to its strictly human host". Virulence. 12 (1): 2608–2632. doi:10.1080/21505594.2021.1980987. PMC 8489951. PMID 34590541.
Liu, Y (March 9, 2022). "The effective reproductive number of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is several times relative to Delta". Journal of Travel Medicine. 29 (3) taac037. Table 1. doi:10.1093/jtm/taac037. ISSN 1708-8305. PMC 8992231. PMID 35262737.
Zhang, Zhengjun (2023). "Omicron's intrinsic gene-gene interactions jumped away from earlier SARS-CoV-2 variants and gene homologs between humans and animals". Advances in Biomarker Sciences and Technology. 5: 105–123. doi:10.1016/j.abst.2023.09.002.
Gaythorpe, K. A. M.; Trotter, C. L.; Lopman, B.; Steele, M.; Conlan, A. J. K. (2018). "Norovirus transmission dynamics: A modelling review". Epidemiology and Infection. 146 (2): 147–158. doi:10.1017/S0950268817002692. PMC 5851036. PMID 29268812.
Fine, Paul E. M. (1993). "Herd Immunity: History, Theory, Practice". Epidemiologic Reviews. 15 (2): 265–302. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a036121. PMID 8174658.
Luman, ET; Barker, LE; Simpson, DM; Rodewald, LE; Szilagyi, PG; Zhao, Z (May 2001). "National, state, and urban-area vaccination-coverage levels among children aged 19–35 months, United States, 1999". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 20 (4): 88–153. doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(01)00274-4. PMID 12174806.
Gani R, Leach S (December 2001). "Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations". Nature. 414 (6865): 748–51. Bibcode:2001Natur.414..748G. doi:10.1038/414748a. PMID 11742399.
Truelove SA, Keegan LT, Moss WJ, Chaisson LH, Macher E, Azman AS, Lessler J (June 2020). "Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects of Diphtheria: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 71 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1093/cid/ciz808. PMC 7312233. PMID 31425581.
Reis, Julia; Shaman, Jeffrey (2018). "Simulation of four respiratory viruses and inference of epidemiological parameters". Infectious Disease Modelling. 3: 23–34. doi:10.1016/j.idm.2018.03.006. PMC 6326234. PMID 30839912.
Grant R, Nguyen LL, Breban R (September 1, 2020). "Modelling human-to-human transmission of monkeypox". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 98 (9): 638–640. doi:10.2471/BLT.19.242347. PMC 7463189. PMID 33012864.
Al-Raeei M (February 2023). "The study of human monkeypox disease in 2022 using the epidemic models: herd immunity and the basic reproduction number case". Annals of Medicine & Surgery. 85 (2): 316–321. doi:10.1097/MS9.0000000000000229. ISSN 2049-0801. PMC 9949786. PMID 36845803.
Wong ZS, Bui CM, Chughtai AA, Macintyre CR (April 2017). "A systematic review of early modelling studies of Ebola virus disease in West Africa". Epidemiology and Infection. 145 (6): 1069–1094. doi:10.1017/S0950268817000164. PMC 9507849. PMID 28166851. The median of the R₀ mean estimate for the ongoing epidemic (overall) is 1.78 (interquartile range: 1.44, 1.80)
Chowell G, Miller MA, Viboud C (June 2008). "Seasonal influenza in the United States, France, and Australia: transmission and prospects for control". Epidemiology and Infection. 136 (6). Cambridge University Press: 852–64. doi:10.1017/S0950268807009144. PMC 2680121. PMID 17634159. The reproduction number across influenza seasons and countries lied in the range 0.9–2.0 with an overall mean of 1.3, and 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.2–1.4.
Martínez, Valeria P.; et al. (2020). "'Super-Spreaders' and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina". New England Journal of Medicine. 383 (23): 2230–2241. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2009040. PMID 33264545.
Luby SP (October 2013). "The pandemic potential of Nipah virus". Antiviral Research. 100 (1): 38–43. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.07.011. PMID 23911335.
Kucharski AJ, Althaus CL (June 2015). "The role of superspreading in Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) transmission". Euro Surveillance. 20 (25): 14–8. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.25.21167. PMID 26132768.
Liu, Ying; Rocklöv, Joacim (October 1, 2021). "The reproductive number of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is far higher compared to the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus". Journal of Travel Medicine. 28 (7) taab124. doi:10.1093/jtm/taab124. PMC 8436367. PMID 34369565.
Andre, Mickensone; Lau, Lee-Seng; Pokharel, Marissa D.; Ramelow, Julian; Owens, Florida; Souchak, Joseph; Akkaoui, Juliet; Ales, Evan; Brown, Harry; Shil, Rajib; Nazaire, Valeria; Manevski, Marko; Paul, Ngozi P.; Esteban-Lopez, Maria; Ceyhan, Yasemin; El-Hage, Nazira (2023). "From Alpha to Omicron: How Different Variants of Concern of the SARS-Coronavirus-2 Impacted the World". Biology. 12 (9): 1267. doi:10.3390/biology12091267. PMC 10525159. PMID 37759666.
Liu, Ying; Rocklöv, Joacim (2021). "The reproductive number of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is far higher compared to the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus". Journal of Travel Medicine. 28 (7) taab124. doi:10.1093/jtm/taab124. PMC 8436367. PMID 34369565.
Prather, Kimberly A.; Marr, Linsey C.; Schooley, Robert T.; McDiarmid, Melissa A.; Wilson, Mary E.; Milton, Donald K. (2020). "Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2". Science. 370 (6514): 303–304. Bibcode:2020Sci...370..303P. doi:10.1126/science.abf0521. PMID 33020250.
Billah, Arif; Miah, Mamun; Khan, Nuruzzaman (November 11, 2020). "Reproductive number of coronavirus: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on global level evidence". PLOS ONE. 15 (11) e0242128. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1542128B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242128. PMC 7657547. PMID 33175914.

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Balkew TM (December 2010). The SIR Model When S(t) is a Multi-Exponential Function (Thesis). East Tennessee State University.

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Siegel E. "Why 'Exponential Growth' Is So Scary For The COVID-19 Coronavirus". Forbes. Retrieved March 19, 2020.

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Prater E (July 9, 2022). "Move over, measles: Dominant Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 could be the most infectious viruses known to man". Fortune. Archived from the original on July 11, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2025.

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Diekmann, O.; Heesterbeek, J.A.P.; Metz, J.A.J. (1990). "On the definition and the computation of the basic reproduction ratio R₀ in models for infectious diseases in heterogeneous populations". Journal of Mathematical Biology. 28 (4). doi:10.1007/BF00178324. hdl:1874/8051.
Consensus document on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (Technical report). World Health Organization. p. 26. hdl:10665/70863. WHO/CDS/CSR/GAR/2003.11. A number of researchers have estimated the basic reproduction number by fitting models to the initial growth of epidemics in a number of countries. Their observations indicate that the SARS-CoV is less transmissible than initially thought with estimates of Ro in the range of 2-4.

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Fraser C, Donnelly CA, Cauchemez S, Hanage WP, Van Kerkhove MD, Hollingsworth TD, et al. (June 2009). "Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings". Science. 324 (5934): 1557–61. Bibcode:2009Sci...324.1557F. doi:10.1126/science.1176062. PMC 3735127. PMID 19433588.
Adam D (July 2020). "A guide to R - the pandemic's misunderstood metric". Nature. 583 (7816): 346–348. Bibcode:2020Natur.583..346A. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02009-w. PMID 32620883.
Delamater PL, Street EJ, Leslie TF, Yang YT, Jacobsen KH (January 2019). "Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R₀)". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 25 (1): 1–4. Bibcode:2019EIDis..25....1D. doi:10.3201/eid2501.171901. PMC 6302597. PMID 30560777.
Hiraoka, Takayuki; Rizi, Abbas K.; Kivelä, Mikko; Saramäki, Jari (2022). "Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily". Physical Review E. 105 (5) L052301. arXiv:2112.07538. Bibcode:2022PhRvE.105e2301H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L052301. PMID 35706197.
Chowell, G.; Hengartner, N.W.; Castillo-Chavez, C.; Fenimore, P.W.; Hyman, J.M. (2004). "The basic reproductive number of Ebola and the effects of public health measures: The cases of Congo and Uganda". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 229 (1): 119–126. Bibcode:2004JThBi.229..119C. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.006. PMID 15178190.
Gani R, Leach S (December 2001). "Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations". Nature. 414 (6865): 748–51. Bibcode:2001Natur.414..748G. doi:10.1038/414748a. PMID 11742399.
Prather, Kimberly A.; Marr, Linsey C.; Schooley, Robert T.; McDiarmid, Melissa A.; Wilson, Mary E.; Milton, Donald K. (2020). "Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2". Science. 370 (6514): 303–304. Bibcode:2020Sci...370..303P. doi:10.1126/science.abf0521. PMID 33020250.
Billah, Arif; Miah, Mamun; Khan, Nuruzzaman (November 11, 2020). "Reproductive number of coronavirus: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on global level evidence". PLOS ONE. 15 (11) e0242128. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1542128B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242128. PMC 7657547. PMID 33175914.

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Becker NG, Glass K, Barnes B, Caley P, Philp D, McCaw JM, et al. (April 2006). "The reproduction number". Using Mathematical Models to Assess Responses to an Outbreak of an Emerged Viral Respiratory Disease. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. ISBN 1-74186-357-0. Archived from the original on February 1, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
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"Omicron transmission: how contagious diseases spread". Nebraska Medicine. December 21, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2022.

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"Playing the Numbers Game: R0". National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center. January 30, 2020. Archived from the original on May 12, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020. [...] while infections that require sexual contact like HIV have a lower R₀ (2-5).

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Shabir O (February 16, 2021). "What is R0?". News-Medical.Net. Archived from the original on June 1, 2025. Retrieved December 1, 2025.

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Fraser C, Donnelly CA, Cauchemez S, Hanage WP, Van Kerkhove MD, Hollingsworth TD, et al. (June 2009). "Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings". Science. 324 (5934): 1557–61. Bibcode:2009Sci...324.1557F. doi:10.1126/science.1176062. PMC 3735127. PMID 19433588.
Adam D (July 2020). "A guide to R - the pandemic's misunderstood metric". Nature. 583 (7816): 346–348. Bibcode:2020Natur.583..346A. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02009-w. PMID 32620883.
Delamater PL, Street EJ, Leslie TF, Yang YT, Jacobsen KH (January 2019). "Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R₀)". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 25 (1): 1–4. Bibcode:2019EIDis..25....1D. doi:10.3201/eid2501.171901. PMC 6302597. PMID 30560777.
Fine, P.; Eames, K.; Heymann, D. L. (April 1, 2011). "'Herd Immunity': A Rough Guide". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 52 (7): 911–916. doi:10.1093/cid/cir007. PMID 21427399.
Hiraoka, Takayuki; Rizi, Abbas K.; Kivelä, Mikko; Saramäki, Jari (2022). "Herd immunity and epidemic size in networks with vaccination homophily". Physical Review E. 105 (5) L052301. arXiv:2112.07538. Bibcode:2022PhRvE.105e2301H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L052301. PMID 35706197.
Vegvari C (2022). "Commentary on the use of the reproduction number R during the COVID-19 pandemic". Stat Methods Med Res. 31 (9): 1675–1685. doi:10.1177/09622802211037079. PMC 9277711. PMID 34569883.
Smith DL, Battle KE, Hay SI, Barker CM, Scott TW, McKenzie FE (April 5, 2012). "Ross, macdonald, and a theory for the dynamics and control of mosquito-transmitted pathogens". PLOS Pathogens. 8 (4) e1002588. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002588. PMC 3320609. PMID 22496640.
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Garnett GP (February 2005). "Role of herd immunity in determining the effect of vaccines against sexually transmitted disease". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 191 (Suppl 1): S97-106. doi:10.1086/425271. PMID 15627236.
Rodpothong P, Auewarakul P (October 2012). "Viral evolution and transmission effectiveness". World Journal of Virology. 1 (5): 131–4. doi:10.5501/wjv.v1.i5.131. PMC 3782273. PMID 24175217.
Li J, Blakeley D, Smith RJ (2011). "The failure of R0". Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2011 527610. doi:10.1155/2011/527610. PMC 3157160. PMID 21860658.
Chowell, G.; Hengartner, N.W.; Castillo-Chavez, C.; Fenimore, P.W.; Hyman, J.M. (2004). "The basic reproductive number of Ebola and the effects of public health measures: The cases of Congo and Uganda". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 229 (1): 119–126. Bibcode:2004JThBi.229..119C. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.006. PMID 15178190.
Ajelli M, Iannelli M, Manfredi P, Ciofi degli Atti ML (March 2008). "Basic mathematical models for the temporal dynamics of HAV in medium-endemicity Italian areas". Vaccine. 26 (13): 1697–707. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.12.058. PMID 18314231.
Heffernan JM, Smith RJ, Wahl LM (September 2005). "Perspectives on the basic reproductive ratio". Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 2 (4): 281–93. doi:10.1098/rsif.2005.0042. PMC 1578275. PMID 16849186.
Guerra FM, Bolotin S, Lim G, Heffernan J, Deeks SL, Li Y, Crowcroft NS (December 2017). "The basic reproduction number (R₀) of measles: a systematic review". The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 17 (12): e420 – e428. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30307-9. PMID 28757186.
Belcher, Thomas; Dubois, Violaine; Rivera-Millot, Alex; Locht, Camille; Jacob-Dubuisson, Françoise (2021). "Pathogenicity and virulence of Bordetella pertussis and its adaptation to its strictly human host". Virulence. 12 (1): 2608–2632. doi:10.1080/21505594.2021.1980987. PMC 8489951. PMID 34590541.
Liu, Y (March 9, 2022). "The effective reproductive number of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is several times relative to Delta". Journal of Travel Medicine. 29 (3) taac037. Table 1. doi:10.1093/jtm/taac037. ISSN 1708-8305. PMC 8992231. PMID 35262737.
Gaythorpe, K. A. M.; Trotter, C. L.; Lopman, B.; Steele, M.; Conlan, A. J. K. (2018). "Norovirus transmission dynamics: A modelling review". Epidemiology and Infection. 146 (2): 147–158. doi:10.1017/S0950268817002692. PMC 5851036. PMID 29268812.
Fine, Paul E. M. (1993). "Herd Immunity: History, Theory, Practice". Epidemiologic Reviews. 15 (2): 265–302. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a036121. PMID 8174658.
Luman, ET; Barker, LE; Simpson, DM; Rodewald, LE; Szilagyi, PG; Zhao, Z (May 2001). "National, state, and urban-area vaccination-coverage levels among children aged 19–35 months, United States, 1999". American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 20 (4): 88–153. doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(01)00274-4. PMID 12174806.
Jiles, RB; Fuchs, C; Klevens, RM (September 22, 2000). "Vaccination coverage among children enrolled in Head Start programs or day care facilities or entering school". Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 49 (9): 27–38. PMID 11016876.
Gani R, Leach S (December 2001). "Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations". Nature. 414 (6865): 748–51. Bibcode:2001Natur.414..748G. doi:10.1038/414748a. PMID 11742399.
Truelove SA, Keegan LT, Moss WJ, Chaisson LH, Macher E, Azman AS, Lessler J (June 2020). "Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects of Diphtheria: A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 71 (1): 89–97. doi:10.1093/cid/ciz808. PMC 7312233. PMID 31425581.
Reis, Julia; Shaman, Jeffrey (2018). "Simulation of four respiratory viruses and inference of epidemiological parameters". Infectious Disease Modelling. 3: 23–34. doi:10.1016/j.idm.2018.03.006. PMC 6326234. PMID 30839912.
Grant R, Nguyen LL, Breban R (September 1, 2020). "Modelling human-to-human transmission of monkeypox". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 98 (9): 638–640. doi:10.2471/BLT.19.242347. PMC 7463189. PMID 33012864.
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