Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence

A Nature study of superspreading and how individual variation affects disease emergence. The companion cites it for the point that even with a reproduction number above one, a lone founder's line can die out by chance. It qualifies the metabolic reproduction number: R_m above one makes naturalization possible, not certain, for any single lineage.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §5)

Used for

R_m; naturalization

Strand

Domestication, invasion & eradication · Epidemiology & spread on networks

Cite

@article{lloydsmith2005superspreading,
  title = {Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence},
  author = {J. O. Lloyd-Smith and S. J. Schreiber and P. E. Kopp and W. M. Getz},
  year = {2005},
  journal = {Nature},
  doi = {10.1038/nature04153},
}