title: A new epidemic model with indirect transmission.
abstract: We consider an epidemic model in which all disease transmission is through shedding of virus by infectives and acquisition by susceptibles, rather than by direct contact. This leads to an susceptible-infectious-virus-removed (SIVR) model for which we can determine the basic reproduction number and the final size relation. We extend the model to an age of infection model with virus shedding a function of the age of infection.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Mathematics , University of British Columbia , Vancouver , Canada.
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brauer
mesh_terms: D050936:Basic Reproduction Number; D058872:Epidemics; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000635:transmission*; D017201:Virus Shedding
keywords: Epidemic models; indirect transmission; virus shedding