• DOI:10.1038/nature07084
Corpus ID: 4408759

Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics

@article{King2008InapparentIA,
  title={Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics},
  author={A. King and E. Ionides and M. Pascual and M. Bouma},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  volume={454},
  pages={877-880}
}

• A. King, E. Ionides, +1 author M. Bouma
• Published 2008
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature

In many infectious diseases, an unknown fraction of infections produce symptoms mild enough to go unrecorded, a fact that can seriously compromise the interpretation of epidemiological records. This is true for cholera, a pandemic bacterial disease, where estimates of the ratio of asymptomatic to symptomatic infections have ranged from 3 to 100 (refs 1–5). In the absence of direct evidence, understanding of fundamental aspects of cholera transmission, immunology and control has been based on… Expand

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