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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2013;4:1935. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2922

Table 1. Parameter estimates for the model of modes of transmission.

Point estimates and 95% credible intervals of model parameters under an exemplar plausible scenario that hand hygiene and surgical face masks reduced contact and droplet transmission respectively by 50% from the time of application of those interventions.

Parameters Hong Kong (275 households with 822 contacts) Bangkok (507 households with 1,266 contacts)
Estimate (95% CI)
Estimate (95% CI)
φ Shape of the Weibull distribution 1.41 (1.05, 1.79) 1.38 (1.14, 1.61)
λ1 Force of contact transmission* 0.16 (0.01, 0.41) 0.17 (0.01, 0.32)
λ2 Force of droplet transmission* 0.11 (0.00 0.30) 0.13 (0.01, 0.28)
λ3 Force of aerosol transmission* 0.28 (0.07, 0.42) 0.22 (0.11, 0.32)
π1 Risk of fever plus cough for infections by contact route 22% (1%, 51%) 26% (1%, 66%)
π2 Risk of fever plus cough for infections by droplet route 23% (1%, 58%) 33% (2%, 73%)
π3 Risk of fever plus cough for infections by aerosol route 53% (33%, 92%) 77% (55%, 98%)
θ1 Proportion of household adults immune/not exposed 88% (84%, 91%) 74% (71%, 78%)
θ2 Proportion of household children immune/not exposed 80% (72%, 88%) 69% (61%, 76%)
*

The forces of infection in combination with a shared shape parameter determine the hazard associated with each competing mode of transmission. The relative contribution of each mode j is calculated as the cause-specific probabilities λjφ/(λ1φ+λ2φ+λ3φ).