Proportionate mixing models for age-dependent infection transmission
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Mathematical Biology
- Vol. 22 (1) , 117-120
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00276550
Abstract
We present explicit formulas for the transmission potential of an immunizing infection where the contact rates and the vaccination rates depend on the chronological age of an individual, and the infectivity and the recovery rate depend on the duration of an infection.Keywords
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