Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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...Preparing for outbreaks of directly transmitted pathogens such as pandemic influenza [1] [2] [3] and SARS [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] , and controlling endemic diseases such as tuberculosis and meningococcal diseases, are major public health priorities....
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...This is a direct generalization of the usual formula for the final size of an epidemic (10) and is linear because we assume that each case, regardless of its source, has equal probability (1 – a) of being symptomatic....
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...To assess the impact of such measures, we constructed a simple, deterministic, compartmental model for SARS transmission, in which a standard susceptible–exposed (noninfectious)– infectious–recovered (SEIR) structure (10) was modified to accommodate quarantine and Lipsitch et al....
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...On the other hand, even an infection with an R of 2, if allowed to spread unchecked in a fully susceptible population, is expected to infect a majority of the population (10)....
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