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. 2025 Jul 1;3(1):57.
doi: 10.1186/s44263-025-00178-2.

Rnaught: a web tool for estimating the basic reproduction number

Tatiana Krikella  1 , Naeem Model  1 , Sawitree Boonpatcharanon  2 , Kseniia Lipikhin  1 , Jane M Heffernan  3 , Hanna Jankowski  1
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Rnaught: a web tool for estimating the basic reproduction number

Tatiana Krikella et al. BMC Glob Public Health. .
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Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Example output from the RNaught web application
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