The effective reproduction number, R t, is a measure of transmission that can be calculated
from standard incidence data to timely detect the beginning of epidemics. It has being …

Objective To evaluate a new method of deriving the reproductive number for vector‐borne
diseases from the early epidemic curves for vector‐borne diseases with incubations in the …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the basic reproduction number (R0) of dengue fever including both
imported and autochthonous cases. METHODS: The study was conducted based on …

Dengue, a vector-borne disease, thrives in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. A
retrospective analysis of the 2002 dengue epidemic in Colima located on the Mexican …

Estimating the basic reproductive ratio R 0 of dengue fever has continued to be an ever‐
increasing challenge among epidemiologists. In this paper we propose two different …

The basic reproduction number, R 0, is defined as the expected number of secondary cases
of a disease produced by a single infection in a completely susceptible population, and can …

Background Dengue, an infectious tropical disease, has recently emerged as one of the
most important mosquito-borne viral diseases in the world. We perform a retrospective …

Epidemic growth rate, r, provides a more complete description of the potential for epidemics
than the more commonly studied basic reproduction number, R 0, yet the former has never …

The magnitude of the basic reproduction ratio R0 of an epidemic can be estimated in several
ways, namely, from the final size of the epidemic, from the average age at first infection, or …

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated meteorological and demographic factors affecting the
length of dengue fever epidemics and the length of time between epidemics in Barbados …