Sentence examples for force of transmission from inspiring English sources

The estimated force of transmission in our model reflects not only contact patterns but also the transmissibility of TB within different age groups (Text S1).

Although effective contacts within children in Hong Kong may not be less frequent than other age groups, and may even be more frequent, we estimated that the force of transmission of TB within children is still lower than other age groups.

Reservoir-incompetent vertebrate hosts appear to contribute an important component to the force of transmission.

The force of transmission in Portuguese children was found to be significantly higher than in the Finnish children.

Removal of ground-covering vegetation may reduce the force of transmission of this pathogen by reducing local rodent density, thereby diverting vector ticks to reservoir-incompetent cattle.

Once the index infant was selected, 2 older children (1 9 and 10 15 years of age) living in the same household were also selected by simple random sampling and included in the study with the objective of estimating the force of transmission and differences in the local risk for infection between infants and older children.

The force of infection (ignoring transmission via movements) is not a linear function of the number of infected farms (contrasting with the standard mass action assumption).

However, from our analysis it is clear that in each scenario there will be a direct relationship between the overall level of transmission, force of infection and the resulting age patterns in seroprevalence and incidence of clinical disease.

We suggest that this discrepancy is most likely explained by the difference between immediately impacts of transmission suppression and those seen in the long term following re-equilibration of transmission intensity, force of infection and population immunity [ 69].

The model combines a frequency dependent and a density dependent force of infection for TB transmission.

First the force distribution of transmission elements is calculated.