Framework for estimating pathogen transmission

01 April 2011

PLoS Computational Biology

McCaw JM, Arinaminpathy N, Hurt AC, McVernon J, McLean AR (2011) A Mathematical Framework for Estimating Pathogen Transmission Fitness and Inoculum Size Using Data from a Competitive Mixtures Animal Model. PLoS Comput Biol 7(4): e1002026. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002026

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Article presents a method to measure the relative transmissibility (“transmission fitness”) of one strain of a pathogen compared to another.