Fine-scale estimation of effective reproduction numbers for dengue surveillance

• Main Authors: Ong, Janet, Soh, Stacy, Ho, Soon Hoe, Seah, Annabel, Dickens, Borame Sue, Tan, Ken Wei, Koo, Joel Ruihan, Cook, Alex R., Richards, Daniel R., Gaw, Leon Yan-Feng, Ng, Lee Ching, Lim, Jue Tao
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Virus-Infection; Vector Control
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163304
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The effective reproduction number Rt is an epidemiological quantity that provides an instantaneous measure of transmission potential of an infectious disease. While dengue is an increasingly important vector-borne disease, few have used Rt as a measure to inform public health operations and policy f...