June 5, 2007PLoS ONEOpen Access

Transmission Parameters of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain

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Population

2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in Great Britain (GB)

Design

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Authors

ISIrina Chis SterSt George's, University of London NFNeil M. FergusonUniversity of London

Discussion

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Implication

Assortative contacts inform livestock epidemic models; leaves open generalization to other pathogens or populations.

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Population

2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in Great Britain (GB)

Intervention

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for estimating epidemiological parameters

Outcome

Transmission parameters and predictive risk maps

Developed an MCMC method to estimate transmission parameters of the 2001 FMD epidemic in Great Britain, highlighting the impact of control measures and assortative contact patterns.

Limitations

Simplifying assumption that infectious farms were completely observed in 2001, equivalent to assuming that farms that were proactively culled but not diagnosed with FMD were not infectious

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Ster et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a821834aedbb2834ec69ef5 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000502

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Transmission Parameters of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain

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Structured PICO

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Transmission Parameters of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Structured PICO

Limitations

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