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Table 2 Difference in degree size for between species and no-between species transmission

From: Contact structures in the poultry industry in Great Britain: Exploring transmission routes for a potential avian influenza virus epidemic

 

Slaughterhouse:

Between species

transmission

Slaughterhouse:

No between species

transmission

Catching company:

Between species

transmission

Catching company:

No between species

transmission

Proportion of zero-degree epidemiological units

0.101

0.310

0.789

0.851

Largest degree

1457

700

223

107

  1. Numbers correspond to number of epidemiological units, and not number of premises. By splitting multi-species premises into separate epidemiological units, the number of units associated with catching companies and slaughterhouses rise to 825 and 3418 respectively.