Basic Reproduction Number

Preferred Label : Basic Reproduction Number;

NCIt synonyms : R0;

NCIt definition : The number of cases that are expected to occur on average in a homogeneous population as a result of infection by a single individual, when the population is susceptible at the start of an epidemic, before widespread immunity starts to develop and before any attempt has been made at immunization. So if one person develops the infection and passes it on to two others, the R0 is 2.;

Details

Origin ID

C173777;

UMLS CUI

C1564867;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- basic reproduction number [MeSH Descriptor]
- basic reproduction number [MeSH concept]
- basic reproduction number [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- basic reproduction number [MeSH Descriptor]
- basic reproduction number [MeSH concept]
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- NCIt COVID-19 Clinical Terminology [NCIt concept]
- NCIt COVID-19 Terminology [NCIt concept]

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