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Epidemic characteristics were based on actual data from the A/H1N1 2009 pandemic including reproduction number, serial interval and age-specific infection rate profile.
Additional epidemic characteristics, and characteristics for alternate baseline epidemics with R0 values of 1.2, 2.0, and 2.5 can be found in Supporting Information Table S1.
It is interesting that the strain of M5 that became common during the second half of the study period was negative by PCR for speA, yet was strongly associated with both invasive and epidemic characteristics.
Input output flow came from the spatial location changes of infected individuals as different epidemic characteristics.
The regression results indicated that exponential growth was correlated to epidemic characteristics.
Here we report the epidemic characteristics that existed in this region during 1999 2008.
Our approach to modelling a generic influenza pandemic was to base epidemic characteristic on those of seasonal influenza strains (for which data is available), but to increase the overall transmissibility (by increasing the basic transmission probability) in order to represent higher infectivity of immunologically novel strains.
The regression models provided estimates of epidemic season characteristics that were on average within 16% of observed epidemic season size, 11% of observed days to peak, and 8% of observed epidemic length.
Regression analysis was used to explore the relationship between the initial exponential growth rate and the epidemic season characteristics of size, days to peak, and length using the seven epidemic seasons of RSV data from PCMC.
Some of these studies have examined the effect of delays to, and the proportion of cases receiving, antivirals; none have specifically modelled epidemics with characteristics based on data from the A/H1N1 2009 pandemic.
c) Hospital questionnaire with 38 items about outbreak preparedness in hospitals, available resources in non-epidemic periods, characteristics of the last dengue outbreak, availability of resources during the outbreak, opinions about successes and failures of outbreak management.
