Figure 3
From: Transmission of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease and Its Potential Driving Factors in Hong Kong
Weekly effective reproduction number (Rt) of HMFD during the study period in Hong Kong, 2010–2014.
Blue dots and vertical solid line represent non-smoothed weekly Rt of HFMD and its 95% CI estimated from the epidemic curve during the main epidemic periods; green line and the shades represent the smoothed weekly Rt and its 95% CI estimated from the epidemic curve; red line represents Rt estimated from the model fitted without adjusting autocorrelation. The histogram is the epidemic curve of the HFMD-associated hospitalizations by week while the light grey bars represent weeks in school vacations during the main epidemic periods.
