| 单词 | reproduction number |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreproduction number reproduction number n. Medicine the average number of cases of an infectious disease arising by transmission from a single infected individual; (also) spec. (more fully basic reproduction number) this number in a population which has not previously encountered the disease; = R₀ n.Also called reproductive number. Cf. R n. 13, R number n. ΚΠ 1987 Jrnl. Math. Biol. 25 366 For p = 1, Hethcote (1976) called σ the contact number since it is equal to the average number of adequate contacts of an infective during the infectious period (others have called it the reproduction number). 1998 G. F. Medley et al. in W. R. Dowdle & D. R. Hopkins Eradication Infectious Dis. iv. 39 Generally, infections with high basic reproduction numbers are more difficult to eradicate. 2020 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 25 May 30 Left to itself coronavirus has a reproduction number of about three, but estimates vary. < as lemmas |
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