title: Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of Zika virus infection during Colombia epidemic, 2015-2016.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan; CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Honcho 4-1-8, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012 Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15 Jo Nishi 7 Chome, Kita-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 060-8638, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishiura
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15 Jo Nishi 7 Chome, Kita-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido 060-8638, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mizumoto
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Programa del Doctorado de Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia.
authors.forename: Wilmer E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Villamil-Gómez
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia; Working Group on Zoonoses, International Society for Chemotherapy, Aberdeen, UK; Public Health and Infection Research Incubator and Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
authors.forename: Alfonso J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Morales
mesh_terms: D050936:Basic Reproduction Number; D003105:Colombia / Q000453:epidemiology; D058872:Epidemics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D000071244:Zika Virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000071243:Zika Virus Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology
keywords: Colombia; Epidemiology; Latin America; Transmission; Zika