Ebola Cases and Health System Demand in Liberia
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Ebola cases and health system demand in Liberia: Supplementary Text
The dominant eigenvalue (Λ) is the long run growth rate of the epidemic and provides a threshold criterion such that outbreak will grow if Λ > 1 and decline if Λ < 1. In this model, which ignores susceptible depletion, Λ is always the effective reproduction number (Reff ) in that it is the average number of secondary infections in a population comprised of community-treated and hospital-treated...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002056