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The 2023 Dengue Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: A One-Health Perspective
Francesca Rovida, Marino Faccini, Carla Molina Grané +31
Introduction. Here we reported the virological, entomological and epidemiological characteristics of the large autochthonous outbreak of dengue (DENV) occurred in a small village o…
Increasing situational awareness through nowcasting of the reproduction number
Andrea Bizzotto, Giorgio Guzzetta, Valentina Marziano +15
The time varying reproduction number R is a critical variable for situational awareness during infectious disease outbreaks, but delays between infection and reporting hinder its a…
Estimation of the incubation period and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants from contact tracing data
Mattia Manica, Maria Litvinova, Alfredo De Bellis +18
Background. During 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by the emergence of lineages with increased fitness. For most of these variants, quantitative information is scarce…
A quantitative assessment of epidemiological parameters to model COVID- 19 burden
Agnese Zardini, Margherita Galli, Marcello Tirani +10
Solid estimates describing the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infections are still lacking due to under-ascertainment of asymptomatic and mild-disease cases. In this work, we quanti…
Infection fatality ratio of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy
Piero Poletti, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda +13
We analyzed 5,484 close contacts of COVID-19 cases from Italy, all of them tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection. We found an infection fatality ratio of 2.2% (95%CI 1.69-2.81%) and iden…
Probability of symptoms and critical disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection
Piero Poletti, Marcello Tirani, Danilo Cereda +14
We quantified the probability of developing symptoms (respiratory or fever \geq 37.5 °C) and critical disease (requiring intensive care or resulting in death) of SARS-CoV-2 positiv…