Advancements in Defining and Estimating the Reproduction Number in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Kangguo Li; Jiayi Wang; Jiayuan Xie; Jia Rui; Buasiyamu Abudunaibi; Hongjie Wei; Hong Liu; Shuo Zhang; Qun Li; Yan Niu; Tianmu Chen

doi:10.46234/ccdcw2023.158

Advancements in Defining and Estimating the Reproduction Number in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

China CDC Wkly. 2023 Sep 15;5(37):829-834. doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2023.158.

Authors

Kangguo Li^{1

2}, Jiayi Wang^{1

2}, Jiayuan Xie^{1

2}, Jia Rui^{1

2}, Buasiyamu Abudunaibi^{1

2}, Hongjie Wei^{1

2}, Hong Liu^{1

2}, Shuo Zhang^{1

2}, Qun Li³, Yan Niu³, Tianmu Chen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, National Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Vaccine Research, Xiamen University, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China.
³ Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: Epidemiology of infectious disease; Mathematical model; Reproduction number.

Grants and funding

Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2021ZD0113903, 2021YFC2301604), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20720230001)