Peter Teunis

TL;DR: A likelihood-based estimation procedure that infers the temporal pattern of effective reproduction numbers from an observed epidemic curve for SARS revealed that epidemics in the various affected regions were characterized by markedly similar disease transmission potentials and similar levels of effectiveness of control measures.

TL;DR: A new variant of the hit theory model of microbial infection was developed to estimate the variation in Norwalk virus infectivity, as well as the degree of virus aggregation, consistent with independent (electron microscopic) observations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated age-specific transmission parameters by augmenting infectious disease data with auxiliary data on self-reported numbers of conversational partners per person, and they showed that models that use transmission parameters based on these selfreported social contacts are better able to capture the observed patterns of infection of endemically circulating mumps, as well as observed pattern of spread of pandemic influenza.

TL;DR: Any type of general mask use is likely to decrease viral exposure and infection risk on a population level, in spite of imperfect fit and imperfect adherence, personal respirators providing most protection.

TL;DR: It is shown that although the discrepancy between the Beta Poisson formula and the exact function is not very large for many data sets, the differences are greatest at low doses--the region of interest for many risk applications.