Estimating the basic reproduction number for the 2015 bubonic plague outbreak in Nyimba district of Eastern Zambia

• Joseph Sichone ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: njeleza.sichone@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, School of Health Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4437-0148

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• Martin C. Simuunza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Bernard M. Hang’ombe,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Africa Centre of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Paraclinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Mervis Kikonko

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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