Pejman Rohani

TL;DR: A systematic analysis of a model based on the standard SIR equations with a vaccinated component that permits vaccine failure in degree ("leakiness"), take ("all-or-nothingness") and duration (waning of vaccine-derived immunity).

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, no matter the choice of persistence measure, appropriately parametrized models of measles demonstrate similar predictions for the level of the CCS, and two new statistical measures of persitence are introduced—fade-outs post epidemic and fade-out post invasion.

TL;DR: A seasonally-forced mathematical model provides the threshold condition for disease control in terms of four major parameters: coverage of the primary vaccine; efficacy of the vaccine; waning rate; and the rate of booster administration, and shows that if the vaccine provides only temporary immunity, then the infection typically cannot be eradicated by a single vaccination episode.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that three classic laboratory populations known to display irregular fluctuations also have reddened spectra, and that the dynamics of these populations show very well-defined generic scaling properties in the form of power laws.

TL;DR: If transmission occurs mainly directly and scales linearly with virus load, and virulence or immune responses are negligible, the evolutionary pressure for influenza viruses to evolve toward good persistence at high within-host temperatures dominates, and for all other scenarios, influenza viruses with good environmental persistence at low temperatures seem to be favored.