Interpreting measures of tuberculosis transmission: a case study on the Portuguese population

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 4 Estimates of active disease prevalence and basic reproduction number for tuberculosis transmission models (1) and (3)

System^a	S	P (10⁻³)	I (10⁻⁵)	L	T (10⁻⁴)	R ₀
1	0.844	1.059	4.261^b	0.155	1.148	1.116
3	0.930	1.316	4.261^b	0.069	1.148	2.237
3 with varying α and γ	pr: 0.844	pr: 1.059	4.261^b	pr: 0.059	1.148^c	pr: 1.116
3 with varying α and γ	Pr: 0.940	Pr: 1.348		Pr: 0.155		Pr: 2.421

Abbreviations: S Susceptible, P Primary infection, I Active Infection, L Latent Infection, R ₀ Reproduction number, pr 0.5% percentile, Pr 99.5% percentile.
^a- parameter values according to Table 1 unless stated otherwise.
^b- estimated directly from tuberculosis incidence.
^c- estimation is not a function of α or γ.

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