id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-346500-uwi3ezd7 Korevaar, Hannah Structure, space and size: competing drivers of variation in urban and rural measles transmission 2020-07-08 .txt text/plain 10575 505 43 The consistency of seasonality in England and Wales (hereafter E&W) as a result of the school calendar provides a unique opportunity to compare transmission rates and epidemic dynamics while isolating urban/rural status from other potentially confounding factors such as climate, variation in seasonal contact rates, population size and proximity to epidemic pacemakers. The diversity of locations in terms of geographical space and population size, as well as the temporal detail of the incidence data provide an unparalleled and uniquely apt dataset for investigating urban and rural differences in transmission. Additional comparisons of TSIR parameters such as transmission rate (β) and R 0 reveal variation with population size, but urban and rural locations remain consistent (electronic supplementary material, figure S5 ). Urban and rural areas do not differ in the number of large (final number of infections greater than the mean) outbreaks, which increases consistently with population size for both district types (electronic supplementary material, figure S4(B) ). ./cache/cord-346500-uwi3ezd7.txt ./txt/cord-346500-uwi3ezd7.txt