Transmissibility of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in small-scale outbreaks in Hunan Province, China.

ABSTRACT: Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) outbreaks are reported frequently in China. However, the transmissibility of AHC remains unclear. This study aimed to calculate the transmissibility of the disease with and without interventions. An AHC outbreak dataset from January 2007 to December 2016 in different schools was built in Hunan Province. A Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model was adopted to calculate the effective reproduction number (R_eff) of AHC. R_eff was divided into two parts (R_unc and R_con) where R_unc and R_con represent the uncontrolled and controlled R_eff , respectively. Based on R_unc and R_con, an index of effectiveness of countermeasures (I_eff) was developed to

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6954223 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature