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Human mobility and poverty as key drivers of COVID-19 transmission and control

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Applying heavy nationwide restrictions is a powerful method to curtail COVID-19 transmission but poses a significant humanitarian and economic crisis.
Matan Yechezkel, Amit Weiss, Idan Rejwan, Edan Shahmoon, Shachaf Ben-Gal, Dan Yamin   +5 more
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Integrating stochasticity and network structure into an epidemic model [PDF]

, 2009
While the foundations of modern epidemiology are based upon deterministic models with homogeneous mixing, it is being increasingly realized that both spatial structure and stochasticity play major roles in shaping epidemic dynamics.
Dangerfield, C. E., Ross, Joshua V., Dangerfield, C., Keeling, Matthew James, Ross, J.   +4 more
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Reanalyzing the 1900-1920 sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda. [PDF]

, 2004
Sleeping sickness has long been a major public health problem in Uganda. From 1900 to 1920, more than 250,000 people died in an epidemic that affected the southern part of the country, particularly the Busoga region.
E.M. Fèvre, Fèvre, EM, S.C. Welburn, P.G. Coleman, Maudlin, I, Fèvre, Eric M., Coleman, PG, Coleman, P.G., Welburn, SC, Welburn, S.C., I. Maudlin, Maudlin, I.   +11 more
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Rapid diagnostic test: a critical need for outbreak preparedness and response for high priority pathogens

BMJ Global Health
Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are critical for preparedness and response against an outbreak or pandemic and have been highlighted in the 100 Days Mission, a global initiative that aims to prepare the world for the next epidemic/pandemic by driving the ...
Paul A Kristiansen, Solomon Abebe Yimer, Birgitte Boonstra Booij, Gwen Tobert, Andrew Hebbeler, Paul Oloo, Polina Brangel, Maïna L'Azou Jackson, Richard Jarman, Danielle Craig, Michael Selorm Avumegah, Henshaw Mandi, Timothy Endy, Stacey Wooden, Carolyn Clark, Valentina Bernasconi, Amy Shurtleff   +16 more
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THE EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1890
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Bolton, A. Irwin, Abraham, PhinS
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The SIS epidemic model with Markovian switching

, 2012
Population systems are often subject to environmental noise. Motivated by Takeuchi et al. (2006), we will discuss in this paper the effect of telegraph noise on the well-known SIS epidemic model.
Greenhalgh, David, Mao, Xuerong, Gray, Alison, Pan, Jiafeng   +3 more
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Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research (CEIR), Annual Report 2022 [PDF]

, 2023
Key message During the COVID-19 pandemic it became apparent that the scientific basis for many infection control interventions was weak, and that more research on the effects of public health and social measures was needed.
Fretheim, Atle
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African, Native American and European mitochondrials DNAs in Cubans from the Pinar del Rio Province and implications for the recent epidemic neuropathy in Cuba

, 1995
Genetic predisposition, particularly specific mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) backgrounds, has been proposed as a contributing factor in the expression of an epidemic of bilateral optic neuropathy that has affected residents of Cuba since 1991. To substantiate
NEWMAN NJ, WALLACE DC, BROWN MD, TORRONI, ANTONIO, LOTT MT, THE CUBAN NATIONAL OPERATIVE GROUP ON EPIDEMIC NEUROPATHY   +5 more
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Spatio-temporal epidemic modelling using additive-multiplicative intensity models [PDF]

, 2008
An extension of the stochastic susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model is proposed in order to accommodate a regression context for modelling infectious disease surveillance data. The proposal is based on a multivariate counting process specified by
Höhle, Michael
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Opportunities for Refinement of Non-Human Primate Vaccine Studies

Vaccines, 2021
Non-human primates (NHPs) are used extensively in the development of vaccines and therapeutics for human disease. High standards in the design, conduct, and reporting of NHP vaccine studies are crucial for maximizing their scientific value and ...
Mark J. Prescott, Carolyn Clark, William E. Dowling, Amy C. Shurtleff   +3 more
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