Guns, germs, and stealing: exploring the link between infectious disease and crime. [PDF]
, 2013 Can variation in crime rates be traced to the threat of infectious disease? Pathogens pose an ongoing challenge to survival, leading humans to adapt defenses to manage this threat.
Ilan Shrira +5 more
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Vaccination reduces the viral load and the risk of transmission of Jembrana disease virus in Bali cattle [PDF]
, 2009 The efficacy of a tissue-derived vaccine, which is currently used in Indonesia to control the spread of Jembrana disease in Bali cattle, was determined by quantifying the viral load in plasma following experimental infection with Jembrana disease virus ...
Wilcox, G.E. +11 more
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Fast estimation of time-varying infectious disease transmission rates.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2020 Compartmental epidemic models have been used extensively to study the historical spread of infectious diseases and to inform strategies for future control. A critical parameter of any such model is the transmission rate.
Mikael Jagan +3 more
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Transmission heterogeneity and control strategies for infectious disease emergence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 The control of emergence and spread of infectious diseases depends critically on the details of the genetic makeup of pathogens and hosts, their immunological, behavioral and ecological traits, and the pattern of temporal and spatial contacts among the ...
Luca Bolzoni, Leslie Real, Giulio De Leo
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Infectious Disease Transmission during Organ and Tissue Transplantation
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 Infectious disease transmission through organ and tissue transplantation has been associated with severe complications in recipients. Determination of donor-derived infectious risk associated with organ and tissue transplantation is challenging and ...
Melissa A. Greenwald +2 more
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Extracting the time-dependent transmission rate from infection data via solution of an inverse ODE problem [PDF]
, 2012 The transmission rate of many acute infectious diseases varies significantly in time, but the underlying mechanisms are usually uncertain. They may include seasonal changes in the environment, contact rate, immune system response, etc.
Weiss, Howard +2 more
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Mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission in macroalgae
Advances in Difference Equations, 2017 Understanding the infectious diseases outbreak of algae can provide significant knowledge for disease control intervention and/or prevention. We consider here a disease caused by highly pathogenic organisms that can result in the death of algae.
Artorn Nokkaew +5 more
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Nurses’ Contacts and Potential for Infectious Disease Transmission
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Nurses’ contacts with potentially infectious persons probably place them at higher risk than the general population for infectious diseases. During an influenza pandemic, illness among nurses might result in staff shortage.
Helen Bernard +4 more
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Review: Livestock disease resilience: from individual to herd level
Animal, 2021 Infectious diseases are a major threat to the sustainable production of high-producing animals. Control efforts, such as vaccination or breeding approaches often target improvements to individual resilience to infections, i.e., they strengthen an animal ...
A. Doeschl-Wilson +3 more
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Networks and the epidemiology of infectious disease [PDF]
, 2011 The science of networks has revolutionised research into the dynamics of interacting elements. It could be argued that epidemiology in particular has embraced the potential of network theory more than any other discipline. Here we review the growing body
Ford, Ashley P. +38 more
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