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Transmission Dynamics and Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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It is estimated that a single infectious case of SARS will infect about three secondary cases in a population that has not yet instituted control measures, and public-health efforts to reduce transmission are expected to have a substantial impact on reducing the size of the epidemic.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a recently described illness of humans that has spread widely over the past 6 months. With the use of detailed epidemiologic data from Singapore and epidemic curves from other settings, we estimated the reproductive number for SARS in the absence of interventions and in the presence of control efforts. We estimate that a single infectious case of SARS will infect about three secondary cases in a population that has not yet instituted control measures. Public-health efforts to reduce transmission are expected to have a substantial impact on reducing the size of the epidemic.

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Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control

TL;DR: 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.
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A first course in stochastic processes

TL;DR: In this paper, the Basic Limit Theorem of Markov Chains and its applications are discussed and examples of continuous time Markov chains are presented. But they do not cover the application of continuous-time Markov chain in matrix analysis.
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Seasonal variation in host susceptibility and cycles of certain infectious diseases.

TL;DR: Ample evidence indicates that photoperiod-driven physiologic changes are typical in mammalian species, including some in humans, and underlie human resistance to infectious diseases for large portions of the year and the changes can be identified and modified, the therapeutic and preventive implications may be considerable.
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