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Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
Roy M. Anderson,Robert M. May +1 more
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This book discusses the biology of host-microparasite associations, dynamics of acquired immunity heterogeneity within the human community indirectly transmitted helminths, and the ecology and genetics of hosts and parasites.Abstract:
Part 1 Microparasites: biology of host-microparasite associations the basic model - statics static aspects of eradication and control the basic model - dynamics dynamic aspects of eradication and control beyond the basic model - empirical evidence of inhomogeneous mixing age-related transmission rates genetic heterogeneity social heterogeneity and sexually transmitted diseases spatial and other kinds of heterogeneity endemic infections in developing countries indirectly transmitted microparasites. Part 2 Macroparasites: biology of host-macroparasite associations the basic model - statics the basic model - dynamics acquired immunity heterogeneity within the human community indirectly transmitted helminths experimental epidemiology parasites, genetic variability, and drug resistance the ecology and genetics of host-parasite associations.read more
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How effective is school-based deworming for the community-wide control of soil-transmitted helminths?
Roy M. Anderson,James E. Truscott,Rachel L. Pullan,Simon Brooker,Simon Brooker,T. Déirdre Hollingsworth +5 more
TL;DR: Estimated proportion of parasites targeted by school-based deworming may be limited, particularly where hookworm predominates, and the consequences for transmission are discussed, including when infective stages deposited by children are more likely to contribute to transmission than those from adults.
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Size and complexity in model financial systems
TL;DR: The results highlight that the importance of relatively large, well-connected banks in system stability scales more than proportionately with their size: the impact of their collapse arises not only from their connectivity, but also from their effect on confidence in the system.
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Branching process models for surveillance of infectious diseases controlled by mass vaccination.
C. P. Farrington,Mona Kanaan +1 more
TL;DR: Methods for monitoring the value of R using surveillance data are described, based on branching processes in which R is identified with the offspring mean, and unconditional likelihoods for the offspringmean are derived using data on outbreak size and outbreak duration.
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Private Vaccination and Public Health: An Empirical Examination for U.S. Measles
TL;DR: It is argued that the more prevention of infectious disease responds to prevalence in this manner, the less it responds to price, thereby lowering the role of Pigouvian price subsidies and other demand-stimulating public health measures aimed at solving the under-provision of vaccines and other preventive efforts with positive external effects.
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The community ecology of pathogens: coinfection, coexistence and community composition.
Eric W. Seabloom,Elizabeth T. Borer,Kevin Gross,Amy E. Kendig,Christelle Lacroix,Charles E. Mitchell,Erin A. Mordecai,Erin A. Mordecai,Alison G. Power +8 more
TL;DR: This synthesis examines pathogen (microparasite) communities using a stochastic metacommunity model as a starting point to bridge community and disease ecology perspectives and demonstrates that a deeper understanding of pathogen community dynamics will emerge from approaches working at the interface of disease and community ecology.