The economic value of R0 for selective breeding against microparasitic diseases

摘要

Relationship between and the probability ( ) of a major epidemic during a production cycle for different frequencies of infection from an external source ( ). Solid blue line: , red dashed line: , green dashed line: . Relationship between and the final fraction of the population that has been infected by the end of a major epidemic ( ) in epidemic microparasitic diseases. The dashed black line indicates the asymptote