Sentence examples for a given epidemic from inspiring English sources

Mathematical models have been used extensively in the research of the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, to help improve our understanding of the major contributing factors in a given epidemic [1 4].

The 'estimate.R' function applies the methods described above to a given epidemic curve.

Our study, and another from the Southern Hemisphere (21) showed a high prevalence of subgroup A1 in 2001, a finding that suggests that specific strains may coexist across geographic areas in a given epidemic.

In 20 of the 75 health centres (27%) situated in districts that declared an epidemic during a given year, a localised epidemic was identified by RT@HC at least one week earlier than the district declared the epidemic.

We also determined alternative basic transmission probabilities that gave epidemics with R0 values of 1.2, 2.0 and 2.5 – the rationale for selecting these values is presented in the Discussion section.

A more complex, but perhaps meaningful parameter is the effective reproductive number which defines the average number of secondary infections an infected will create at a given point in the epidemic.

First, we assumed a normal distribution of patients over a given period, but the epidemic curve is not symmetric (22 ).

The observation model determines the likelihood of the observed data (the patient swabs) for a given realization of the epidemic process (the augmented data), and the transmission and importation model specifies the likelihood of the realization given the model parameters.

The second line of study is testing if using search query data or Twitter post data can effectively track an epidemic across a given population (in real-time).

To account for any variations in sample effort when making year to year comparisons, the relative size of an epidemic for a given type and subtype in a given country and year was determined as a percent of the total number of isolates in a given year belonging to a particular type and subtype.

However, the earliest epidemics often occur in multiple simultaneous locations, and there is no clear spatial pattern for the movement of the dengue epidemic within a given season.