• Jane M Heffernan and Shannon Collinson [ 19 ] have applied the "media function" that affects the transmission rate in the mathematical epidemiology model, which allowed the effects of mass media during disease outbreaks to be studied in mathematical modeling literature. (hindawi.com)
  • This will have direct bearing on the epidemiology, dynamics, and future trends in CWD transmission and spread. (nih.gov)
  • Epidemiology, literally the "study of what is upon people", is concerned with the dynamics of health and disease in human populations. (plos.org)
  • Research in epidemiology aims to identify the distribution, incidence, and etiology of human diseases [1] to improve the understanding of the causes of diseases and to prevent their spread. (plos.org)
  • Simplified understandings of disease epidemiology, propogated through media soundbites, may make the disease significantly worse. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Frits Rosendaal is professor of Clinical Epidemiology and chairman of the department of Clinical Epidemiology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he researches the causes of cardiovascular disease. (therealnews.com)
  • Epidemiology is the study of the dynamics of disease transmission in populations of people. (therealnews.com)
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Disease Ecology and Epidemiology , Mathematical Biosciences Institute, October 14, 2011. (miami.edu)
  • The relation between a mathematical theory describing STI epidemiology and the taxonomy of "phases" is explored in this review of the transmission dynamics of STIs. (bmj.com)
  • From November 2013, after 8 amazing years in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, I will move to Institut Pasteur (Paris) to head a new Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit . (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Observed differences in prevalence of HIV / AIDS between the surveyed districts wereremarkable and warrant regular surveillance for updated disease epidemiology . (bvsalud.org)
  • Hiroshi's interests span the areas of statistical epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemiological modeling and biomathematical formulation of the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. (hku.hk)
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases has published a layman's article comparing the transmission dynamics of various coronaviruses - COVID-19, SARS/MERS, and influenza - and discussing mitigation measures. (graphicartistsguild.org)
  • The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019, and its resulting coronavirus disease, COVID-19, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. (nature.com)
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) since its declaration as a pandemic by world health organization (WHO) has spread across the various continent with little known about the most effective public health response for containing and mitigating the transmission of the epidemic. (preprints.org)
  • Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic brings potentially impact on the care of patients with rheumatic diseases, including SAPHO syndrome. (medrxiv.org)
  • The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). (medrxiv.org)
  • 2 It has spread throughout worldwide by human-to-human transmission via droplets or direct contact since December, 2019. (medrxiv.org)
  • Shigui Ruan, Likelihood of survival of coronavirus disease 2019 , Lancet Infectious Diseases 20 (2020) (6), 630-631. (miami.edu)
  • Objective To evaluate viral loads at different stages of disease progression in patients infected with the 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) during the first four months of the epidemic in Zhejiang province, China. (bmj.com)
  • Infectious disease in humans and in plant and animal agriculture (or in domesticated companion animals) is often the direct consequence of interactions with non-agricultural populations of the same hosts (Cleaveland et al. (springer.com)
  • Previous approaches to understanding disease transmission dynamics in wild populations were limited in their ability to disentangle different factors that determine the outcome of disease outbreaks. (datadryad.org)
  • Infectious diseases are increasingly recognized as an important force driving population dynamics, conservation biology, and natural selection in wildlife populations. (nih.gov)
  • Infectious agents have been implicated in the decline of small or endangered populations and may act to constrain population size, distribution, growth rates, or migration patterns. (nih.gov)
  • Further, diseases may provide selective pressures that shape the genetic diversity of populations or species. (nih.gov)
  • Our work provides a rare example of a quantifiable disease-driven selection process in a wildlife population, demonstrating the potential for infectious diseases to alter host populations. (nih.gov)
  • Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can provide local and timely information about disease and health dynamics in populations around the world. (plos.org)
  • In this interview with Science Communication Intern Maggie Szymanska, Professor Andrea Wilson tells about her research group on the development of mathematical models and computational tools to understand how the genetics of individuals, combined with non-genetic factors, influence the dynamics of infectious diseases and their impact on the health and performance of individuals and of entire livestock populations. (ed.ac.uk)
  • I hope that and my research can help contribute to that, that eventually we will have less disease in animal populations. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Aspects of populations that create structure, like age and sex, can affect patterns of transmission, infection intensity and population outcomes. (usgs.gov)
  • Higher disease impacts in female bats may have cascading effects on bat populations beyond the hibernation season by limiting recruitment and increasing the risk of Allee effects. (usgs.gov)
  • What we're proposing is a new approach to modeling infectious diseases that are circulating in nature, which would allow scientists to simulate the behavior of these pathogens in wildlife populations, how they respond to human activities and better determine the risk that they pose to people. (phys.org)
  • Cette possibilité de financement sur le virus Zika est en réponse à l'éclosion virale en Amérique Latine et les Caraïbes et à la menace à la santé que cela représente pour les populations touchées. (bvsalud.org)
  • The majority of infections result from interactions between the animal reservoir and human populations, although secondary transmission between humans can occur, particularly in hospital settings. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • My research interests focus on uncovering the dynamics of domestic dog rabies in heterogeneous landscapes using a combination of genetic and epidemiological data. (gla.ac.uk)
  • His research entails investigating the molecular epidemiological features/transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and zoonotic infectious diseases in Nepal using molecular techniques like ELISA, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), RT-PCR, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), DNA sequencing, and whole genome sequencing (WGS). (intechopen.com)
  • Epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory characteristics and treatment and outcomes data were obtained through data collection forms from electronic medical records, and the relation between clinical data and disease severity was analysed. (bmj.com)
  • Online respondent-driven detection can provide relevant epidemiological data on numbers of contact persons and dynamics of contacts between pairs of individuals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A social network approach can provide relevant epidemiological data on numbers of contacts and the strength and dynamics of contacts between pairs of individuals in a population [ 13 , 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ICE research includes a wide portfolio of aim to evaluate the role of infectious study designs that are tailored to specific agents in human cancers through The overall strategy of ICE is to improve infectious agents across a spectrum of biological and epidemiological studies. (who.int)
  • Dive into the research topics where Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics is active. (psu.edu)
  • I am a veterinary epidemiologist with wide ranging interests in emerging and zoonotic disease, ecology and conservation ecology, and ecosystem health. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Perhaps more importantly, the fact that the tick had successfully infested a person's nose canal-his own-meant that Goldberg had inadvertently documented a potential new route of zoonotic pathogen transmission to humans. (nature.com)
  • Last year, a team led by disease ecologist Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a conservation organization headquartered in New York, reported in mBio the results of an exhaustive survey of all the viruses hosted by a single fruit bat species, the Indian flying fox, which is known to harbor emerging zoonotic pathogens. (nature.com)
  • His research interests include infectious diseases, zoonotic infectious diseases, and vector-borne diseases. (intechopen.com)
  • Increased human-animal interactions lead to the emergence and spread of zoonotic pathogens, which cause about 75% of infectious diseases affecting human health. (phys.org)
  • Results: Our results predict that 37.7 million people in 14 countries, across much of West Africa, live in areas where conditions are suitable for zoonotic transmission of LASV. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • Combining this zoonotic niche map with detailed patient travel histories can aid differential diagnoses of febrile illnesses, enabling a more rapid response in providing care and reducing the risk of onward transmission. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • A map defining areas of environmental suitability for zoonotic transmission of Lassa fever was generated using an ensemble boosted regression trees (BRT) species distribution modelling framework. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • Genomic surveillance is increasingly important in public health efforts to detect and control infectious diseases, by detecting emerging infections and outbreaks, monitoring antimicrobial resistance, and evaluating and improving vaccines. (cdc.gov)
  • Mathematical models are quite helpful in investigating the behavior of viruses, diseases, or infections and help out to conclude under what circumstances the outbreaking virus can be eradicated or continued in citizens and are often useful in estimating the duration of an outbreak. (hindawi.com)
  • Here, we explore sex-biased infections for a multi-host fungal disease of bats, white-nose syndrome, and link disease-associated mortality between sexes, the distortion of sex ratios and the potential mechanisms underlying sex differences in infection. (usgs.gov)
  • Dynamic effects of asymptomatic infections on malaria transmission. (zbmath.org)
  • While government agencies for disease control and prevention may attempt to contain the disease [ 3 ], the general information disseminated to the public is often restricted to simply reporting the number of infections and deaths. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In diseases driven by super-spreading, a rule of thumb is the " 20/80 rule " - around 20% of individuals are responsible for at least 80% of the infections, though the actual numbers vary by disease, Metcalf says. (ijpr.org)
  • The division between high transmission probability, short duration infections and low transmission probability, long duration infections is explored. (bmj.com)
  • Utilizing animal models of several human diseases including enteric infections and inflammatory bowel disease to determine the cellular targets and molecular signals by which dietary components regulate immunity. (psu.edu)
  • The effect of age, sex and starvation of Glossina morsitans morsitans on the transmission of Trypanosoma congolense and T. congolense/T.B. brucei mixed infections / by Mwangelwa Inambao Mwangelwa. (who.int)
  • G. Zhao and S. Ruan (2023), Spatiotemporal dynamics in epidemic models with Levy Flights: A fractional diffusion approach, Journal de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ees 173, 243-277. (miami.edu)
  • X. Feng, Y. Liu, S. Ruan and J. Yu (2023), Periodic dynamics of a single species model with seasonal Michaelis-Menten type harvesting, Journal of Differential Equations 354, 237-263. (miami.edu)
  • S.-L. Wu, L. Pang and S. Ruan (2023), Propagation dynamics in periodic predator-prey systems with nonlocal dispersal, Journal de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ees 170 , 57-95. (miami.edu)
  • In particular, I am interested in the development of sound methods for the analysis of infectious disease data, with the aim to get insights on dynamics of infection and transmission and to support decision making. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) is a multidisciplinary grouping of more than 150 epidemiologists, mathematicians, economists, statisticians and clinicians from across LSHTM. (lshtm.ac.uk)
  • He is also the Canadian leader of a Canada-China collaboration in disease management and modelling, funded by the International Development Research Centre and Canada Research Chair program. (yorku.ca)
  • Among his accomplishments, Wu is founding director of the Laboratory for Industrial & Applied Mathematics and the Centre for Disease Modelling , and has co-authored 17 books and more than 280 articles in both pure mathematics and mathematical applications. (yorku.ca)
  • Investigation of acute outbreak events' by Dr Hiroshi NISHIURA, infectious disease modeler (School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong) and Dr Huiling YEN, influenza transmission and pathogenicity virologist (School of Public Health and HKU-Pasteur Reseach Centre, The University of Hong Kong). (hku.hk)
  • 7 National Microbiology Laboratory at the JC Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada. (lu.se)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ), working with parameters set out by members of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R), are planning to invest in areas where new knowledge on Zika virus will help develop diagnostics for Zika virus infection, understand the pathology caused by the virus, and ultimately prevent its transmission and morbidity. (bvsalud.org)
  • We formulate a deterministic transmission and vaccination model to investigate the effects of media coverage on the transmission dynamics of influenza. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Conversely, media may have little effect on seasonal diseases (eg regular influenza). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In 2008, I evaluated the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from the analysis of surveillance Sentinel data and the timing of holidays in France (Nature, 2008). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • For infectious diseases, such as influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome and measles, proximity and social contact between individuals are major factors for person-to-person transmission. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There are now vaccines to protect against malaria, dengue and Ebola virus disease, and promising vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus, tuberculosis and all influenza virus strains are in the pipeline. (who.int)
  • My work is focuses on different applications and diciplines such as Epidemics, Synchronization and Evolutionary dynamics. (researchgate.net)
  • Humans and horses both exhibit disease symptoms from the virus, and symptoms rarely occur in other animals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further, by employing a comparative approach that is inclusive of microorganisms, plants, wild and domestic animals, and humans, we will deepen our understanding of disease for all of these fields. (springer.com)
  • The study of plant sexually transmitted diseases also has stimulated increased understanding of sexually transmitted diseases in animals and humans (Lockhart et al. (springer.com)
  • My research focuses on transmission of Streptococcus agalactiae in networks of humans and animals. (gla.ac.uk)
  • One of the main reasons behind the outspread of COVID-19 is due to the transmission of germs through respiratory globules among humans, and this virus is considered to be the vector transmission. (hindawi.com)
  • Approximately three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases in humans arise by cross-species transfer 2 . (nature.com)
  • In the midst of a devastating global pandemic of wildlife origin and with future spillovers imminent as humans continue to come into closer contact with wildlife, infectious-disease models that consider the full ecological and anthropological contexts of disease transmission are critical to the health of all life. (phys.org)
  • Infectious diseases of humans : dynamics and control / Roy M. Anderson and Robert M. May. (who.int)
  • The low capacity for transmission between humans suggests a are mild or asymptomatic and do not require hospitalisation. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • Proposals that deal with disease etiology, pathophysiology, transmission from mother to fetus, transmission through sexual contact, development of diagnostics, or development of vaccines are not appropriate for submission to the NSF EEID program. (nsf.gov)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial and temporal characteristics of COVID-19 transmission during the early stage of the outbreak in the US, with the goal of informing future responses to similar outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • Genomic sequencing can also provide insights into transmission and outbreak dynamics. (cdc.gov)
  • During the 2003 SARS outbreak, he established and led a national team of more than 20 scientists from governmental agencies and medical and mathematical sciences to model the transmission dynamics and spread of infectious disease (see YFile , Dec. 9, 2003). (yorku.ca)
  • In a 2015 outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea, about two-thirds of the transmission came from just two super-spreading events in hospitals, which fast-tracked the spread of the virus, says Adam Kucharski , who researches the dynamics of infectious disease at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (ijpr.org)
  • A popular healer treated Ebola patients from an outbreak in neighboring Guinea, contracted the disease and died. (ijpr.org)
  • Estimates of the serial interval were shorter at the end of the study period as increasing evidence of pre-symptomatic transmission was documented and as jurisdictions enacted outbreak control measures. (who.int)
  • Effective reproduction numbers are commonly overestimated early in a disease outbreak. (who.int)
  • This entry was posted in General Announcements , Research & Science issues and tagged Decision Making , Evidence-Informed , Global Health , Outbreak Diseases , Zika Virus by Editor Equity/Equidad . (bvsalud.org)
  • Pathogens traverse disciplinary and taxonomic boundaries, yet infectious disease research occurs in many separate disciplines including plant pathology, veterinary and human medicine, and ecological and evolutionary sciences. (springer.com)
  • The fundamental mechanisms governing infectious disease transmission and contamination by most pathogens remain poorly understood. (aps.org)
  • Thus, understanding disease dynamics and selective pressures from pathogens is crucial to understanding population processes, managing wildlife diseases, and conserving biological diversity. (nih.gov)
  • The discovery of so many new and exciting pathogens will be most useful for public health if such pathogen discovery is complemented by a concomitant increase in our understanding of the many transmission pathways," Goldberg told Nature Medicine . (nature.com)
  • It adapts established methods developed to study the planet's natural systems, including climate change, ocean circulation and forest growth, and applies them to parasites and pathogens that cause disease . (phys.org)
  • Despite incredible advances in the understanding of how infectious diseases are transmitted, the models these efforts are based on are relatively limited in scope, focusing on specific pathogens and often overlooking how pathogens interact within their hosts. (phys.org)
  • By identifying general rules for how food chains that include disease entities are structured, it should be possible to predict the types of pathogens that are present in any given ecosystem. (phys.org)
  • Transmission of respiratory pathogens in a population depends on the contact network patterns of individuals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although complex mechanisms influence online peer recruitment, the observed statistical relationships reflected the observed contact network patterns in the general population relevant for the transmission of respiratory pathogens. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Viral determinants of neurotropism, encephalitis, transmission and persistence in BSL-3 pathogens. (psu.edu)
  • Abstract: In this colloquium, differential equation and agent-based models in which contagious disease transmission is affected by contagious fear of the disease and contagious fear of the control, in this case vaccine will be presented. (debategraph.org)
  • In addition, asymptomatic people may transmit COVID-19, making it difficult to accurately model the dynamic spread of the disease (5). (cdc.gov)
  • Can mathematical models of Zika virus transmission dynamics and spatial spread be developed to incorporate the effects of vector control methods? (nsf.gov)
  • Herein, the authors have shared their perspectives and opinions on the dynamics and response to COVID-19 from Africa context to create more awareness and approach in mitigating the spread of the virus should the continent becomes the epicenter of COVID-19. (preprints.org)
  • Goffman and Newill [ 6 ] compare the similarities between the spread of disease and rumor and use the stability of the epidemic model to explain the final propagation state of the rumor. (hindawi.com)
  • Based on summarizing the similarities and differences between the spread of infectious diseases and the mechanism of rumor diffusion, Klaus [ 8 ] emphatically expounds the reasonableness of using the epidemic model to explain the spread of rumors. (hindawi.com)
  • moderate coverage can limit the spread of infectious diseases and reduce the loss of infectious disease transmission. (hindawi.com)
  • Our work aims to capture evolutionary dynamics to guide intervention design for public health as well as to understand the nature of infectious disease spread. (lshtm.ac.uk)
  • Wu, a Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics , is leading two prominent Canadian teams on modelling and geo-stimulation of disease spread, and coordinates a number of academic-industrial collaborations in data mining, neuronal networks and pattern recognition. (yorku.ca)
  • Future studies should measure the impact of the conditions in prisons on TB transmission and assess the population attributable risk of prison-to-community spread. (who.int)
  • There are diseases such as SARS and flu that exhibit some distinct features such as rapid spatial spread and visible symptoms [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • At least 13 other people on his floor got sick, and when his floormates left the country, they spread the disease to Canada, Vietnam and Singapore. (ijpr.org)
  • The Influence of Human Behavior and Social Factors on the Spread of Infeectious Diseases , Fields Institute. (miami.edu)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has led many countries to impose quarantines, ensuring that people who may have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus or who return from abroad are isolated for a specific period to prevent the spread of the disease. (elifesciences.org)
  • I rely on sophisticated statistical methods to probabilistically reconstruct the pattern of spread and estimate the rates of transmission in different settings. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • With 130 research laboratories and units, 20 National Reference Centres (in charge of disease surveillance in France) and a unique international network of 32 Institutes that spread across the five continents, Institut Pasteur is a unique environment to develop inter-disciplinary and translational research. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Phylogeographic reconstruction evidenced that most transitions (82%) occur within municipalities, highlighting local transmission corridors.Our study indicates that M. bovis continues to spread at the cattle-wildlife interface within the animal TB hotspot area, possibly driven by the foraging behaviour of wild boar near agricultural lands. (bvsalud.org)
  • The dispersal of his debauched mercenary army throughout Western Europe was responsible for the rapid spread of the new disease, termed the great pox. (medscape.com)
  • Moreover, they are widely seen as critical for addressing emerging infectious diseases, for example by containing or limiting outbreaks of infectious diseases or combatting the spread of antimicrobial resistance. (who.int)
  • For example, I look at how infectious disease outbreaks are driven by the genetic diversity of animals or how the dynamics of fighting behaviour in a group of animals after mixing is driven by genetics. (ed.ac.uk)
  • But a pattern in which outbreaks are driven by relatively few cases holds across several diseases, including HIV, tuberculosis and typhoid, according to researchers who study disease patterns. (ijpr.org)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Reported to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by states through April 21, 2005. (cdc.gov)
  • The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • States such as Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas showed simultaneous increases in the number of COVID-19 cases, consistent with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/ascariasis/index.html]. (medscape.com)
  • Our findings can contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics of early COVID-19 transmission and provide decision makers with timely and accurate information to respond to the pandemic and future public health emergencies. (cdc.gov)
  • As the pandemic progressed, a continued paucity of evidence on routes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission has resulted in shifting infection prevention and control guidelines between classically-defined airborne and droplet precautions. (nature.com)
  • These behavioural dynamics in turn can amplify or suppress disease transmission, revealing several coupled contagion mechanisms for multiple pandemic waves, including cases where waves increase in amplitude. (debategraph.org)
  • Regional outbreaks (e.g. of Ebola virus disease), the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of future pandemics (such as with a novel flu strain) have and will continue to strain even the most resilient health systems. (who.int)
  • Some of these are termed variants of concern when evidence suggests that they increase transmissibility or disease severity. (cdc.gov)
  • Besides, transmissibility is difficult to assess because chains of transmission are typically unobserved. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Becker NG, Wang D, Clements M. Type and quantity of data needed for an early estimate of transmissibility when an infectious disease emerges. (who.int)
  • Some types of infectious and chronic disease data can be captured from and disseminated in near real-time through an array of online sources including chat rooms, social networks, blogs, web search records, and online news media. (plos.org)
  • The basic reproduction that indicates the behavior of the disease is also estimated by the use of next-generation matrix method. (hindawi.com)
  • One of the methods of analyzing the behavior of diseases is compartmental modelling that is applicable to the mathematical models involving influential diseases. (hindawi.com)
  • From his work on Ebola transmission during the 2014-2015 epidemic in West Africa, he thinks that social behavior plays a big part. (ijpr.org)
  • This reinforced the social stigmata attached to the disease by associating it with shameful and immoral behavior. (medscape.com)
  • Jean M. Tchuenche and Chris T. Bauch [ 20 ] established a susceptible-infected-hospitalized-recovered model with vital dynamics, in which the media coverage of disease incidence and disease prevalence can influence people to reduce their contact rates. (hindawi.com)
  • One of the projects focused on the development of new methods to understand how genetics contribute to disease prevalence in a population. (ed.ac.uk)
  • We assessed the prevalence, trends and transmission dynamics of pre-treatment HIVDR within and between MSM, people who inject drugs (PWID), female sex workers (FSWs), heterosexuals (HETs) and perinatally infected children in Kenya. (lu.se)
  • The prevalence of non- communicable diseases, recurring health emergencies, natural disasters, and humanitarian crises put pressure on fragile health systems. (who.int)
  • I am interested in the applications of modelling techniques to conservation and management, particularly in modelling species occurrence, population dynamics and biotic interactions. (gla.ac.uk)
  • I am interested in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. (gla.ac.uk)
  • In the federation's citation it was noted that Wu is recognized in Canada and internationally for his interdisciplinary research in modelling disease transmission. (yorku.ca)
  • He is most known for his contributions to the field of disease modelling, where his work has made a permanent and positive impact on human health. (yorku.ca)
  • Infectious Disease Modelling, 3, 301-321. (ku.edu)
  • Andrea is Deputy Head of the Roslin Research Division of Genetics and Genomics and personal chair in Animal Disease Genetics and Modelling. (ed.ac.uk)
  • It was really something that interested me, as it brought the dynamics back into the modelling, as disease is such a highly dynamic process. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Methodologically, the coupled contagion approach advances infectious disease modelling by including human behavioural adaptations, grounded in the cognitive neuroscience of fear learning, extinction, and transmission. (debategraph.org)
  • EIDM ☜The Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative (EIDM) - by the Public Health Agency of Canada and NSERC - aims to establish multi-disciplinary network(s) of specialists across the country in modelling infectious diseases to be applied to public needs associated with emerging infectious diseases and pandemics such as COVID-19. (debategraph.org)
  • 2021-2022 Colloquium on Mathematics for Public Health☜The Mathematics for Public Health Colloquia are hour-long events where the program research is shared with those with an interest in disease modelling and public health. (debategraph.org)
  • This very diverse set of outstanding competences offers a unique opportunity to develop a multidisciplinary perspective on infectious disease modelling and construct the next generation of mathematic models that make best use of data gathered at very different scales (cellular, host, population). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Computational fluid dynamics. (cdc.gov)
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics provides a practical, efficient, and cost effective means of investigating air contaminant exposure and evaluating prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is currently leading Computational Fluid Dynamics research in the following areas: 1. (cdc.gov)
  • Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, researchers and occupational health and safety professionals can identify exposure regions, devise methods for preventing exposure, and improve exposure assessment accuracy. (cdc.gov)
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a contagious respiratory disease that is causing significant global morbidity and mortality. (mdpi.com)
  • I study the transmission dynamics of bovine tuberculosis, a disease of cattle caused by Mycobacterium bovis . (gla.ac.uk)
  • Background: Transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in prisons has been reported worldwide to be much higher than that reported for the corresponding general population. (who.int)
  • Resultados En una cohorte prospectiva de 231 contactos intradomiciliarios de tuberculosis en los que se realizaron ensayos de liberación de interferón-gamma en forma seriada, estudiamos a todos los contactos no infectados que adquirieron la infección al seguimiento («conversores», n=18), y a un grupo control pareado por edad y sexo que no adquirió la infección tuberculosa («no conversores», n=36). (bvsalud.org)
  • Quantifying TB transmission: a systematic review of reproduction number and serial interval estimates for tuberculosis. (who.int)
  • These advances require more substantial investment in basic disease research. (springer.com)
  • However, infectious disease research has been and still is the province of many separate disciplines including veterinary medicine, plant pathology, and human medicine, where these fields are defined by the host organism being studied rather than by the concepts that cut across taxonomic boundaries. (springer.com)
  • In the past decade, infectious disease research also has captured the full attention of the ecological and evolutionary sciences. (springer.com)
  • Terminological inconsistency is only a symptom of larger divides, and it is clear that bridging these disciplinary and taxonomic gaps to allow true interdisciplinary research efforts will lead to novel insights, important synergistic interactions across fields, and advanced understanding and ability to control infectious disease. (springer.com)
  • Through a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology's Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program is accepting research proposals on Zika that address the ecological transmission dynamics of the virus. (nsf.gov)
  • The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has also published a notice of interest for research on Zika virus. (nsf.gov)
  • On the basis of nonlinear dynamic model, we research the propagation of rumors after emergencies, describe the impact of media coverage and emergency strategies by government on the transmission dynamics of information, and then obtain the basic reproduction number of rumor spreading. (hindawi.com)
  • This field of research really intrigued me, as it combined genetics, which I find fascinating, with dynamics that I had been looking at throughout my career up to that point. (ed.ac.uk)
  • My dream would be that, in the next decade or so, we could use our research to really influence new breeding programs that our research could help with starting to breed animals that help reduce disease or animals that do not get sick to a certain disease. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Disease and health are predominantly viewed as a human construct and the role the environment plays in disease is often overlooked," said Yvonne-Marie Linton, research director for the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. (phys.org)
  • Advances in Sequential Monte Carlo methodology offer new opportunities to fit complex mathematical model to infectious disease data and I am keen to do more research in this area. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Neurosyphilis, quite directly, is defined as a CSF WBC count of 20 cells/µL or greater or a reactive CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test result. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, my research group explores the HIV genetic diversity, transmission dynamics and drug resistance. (lu.se)
  • UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. (who.int)
  • The diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) in a child agrees with the complaint of sexual abuse, and motivates a research when there is no such claim 9.10 . (bvsalud.org)
  • An approach integrated across the plant-animal divide would advance our understanding of disease by quantifying critical processes including transmission, community interactions, pathogen evolution, and complexity at multiple spatial and temporal scales. (springer.com)
  • We will discuss how fluids and their dynamics are critical in shaping pathogen transport and how, in turn this can shape various phases of infectious disease transmission. (aps.org)
  • It is important to state that some authors have published on the lessons learned from transmission and management of COVID-19 infection but only a few considered it from the Africa perspective. (preprints.org)
  • COVID-19 and indirect health implications in Africa: Impact, mitigation measures, and lessons learned for improved disease control. (who.int)
  • Background: Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic illness responsible for disease outbreaks across West Africa. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • Here we ask how social connectivity is affected by infection and how this relationship impacts disease transmission dynamics. (datadryad.org)
  • There is ample evidence that variation in the prion protein gene (PRNP) impacts host susceptibility to prion diseases. (nih.gov)
  • Existing data on how SARS-CoV-2 behaves in a population were used to generate a model that would predict how changing quarantine length impacts transmission for both travellers and people who may have been exposed to the virus. (elifesciences.org)
  • Moreover, the mechanisms underlying demographic differences in disease are frequently unclear. (usgs.gov)
  • Despite progress in treatments and more affordable drugs there is still a vast need for new findings which could further explain the mechanisms of HIV disease progression. (lu.se)
  • We used dynamic mode decomposition to show that certain areas in the US shared similar trends and similar spatiotemporal transmission patterns of COVID-19. (cdc.gov)
  • Results from DMD analysis indicate that certain areas in the US shared similar trends and similar spatiotemporal transmission patterns of COVID-19. (cdc.gov)
  • Because of the magnitude and severity of outcomes associated with COVID-19, investigation of the coherent spatiotemporal dynamics of COVID-19 transmission is crucial (6,7). (cdc.gov)
  • Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is an equation-free method originally developed in the field of fluid dynamics to investigate coherent spatiotemporal modes. (cdc.gov)
  • DMD can efficiently reveal the hidden structures of spatiotemporal dynamics from existing data without the requirement of previous assumptions of the studied dataset (8,9). (cdc.gov)
  • Building on a compartmental model that accounts for early detection and isolation of infectious individuals through testi. (researchgate.net)
  • Scant evidence describing SARS-CoV-2 1 transmission dynamics has led to shifting isolation guidelines from the WHO, U.S. CDC and other public health authorities. (nature.com)
  • 3 To interrupt COVID-19 transmission, stringent containment measures are taken widely in China, including isolation of cases, quarantine of contacts, and strict restrictions on personal movement. (medrxiv.org)
  • decided to examine how shorter isolation periods and test-and-release schemes affected transmission. (elifesciences.org)
  • The analysis predicted that shortening quarantines from ten to seven days would result in almost no increased risk of transmission, if paired with PCR testing on day five of isolation (with people testing positive being confined for longer). (elifesciences.org)
  • Just as a mechanic must understand how a car's components interact and how it's been engineered in order to improve performance, the same applies to our ability to model infectious disease," said first author Dr. James Hassell, wildlife veterinarian, epidemiologist and Keller Family Skorton Scholar for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's (SCBI) Global Health Program. (phys.org)
  • Most host transitions were intraspecific (80%), while interspecific transmissions between wildlife species (wild boar-red deer), and between wild boar and cattle, were highly supported. (bvsalud.org)
  • Reported incidence of neuroinvasive West Nile virus disease by county, United States, 1999-2004. (cdc.gov)
  • Is our interaction with the environment somehow responsible for the increase in incidence of these diseases? (nsf.gov)
  • LTBI) and TB disease in prisons, as compared to the incidence in the corresponding local general population, and to estimate the fraction of TB in the general population attributable (PAF%) to transmission within prisons. (who.int)
  • Studies, which were independently screened by two reviewers, were eligible for inclusion if they reported the incidence of LTBI and TB disease in prisons. (who.int)
  • Incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in Great Britain. (medscape.com)
  • Seeking answers, Goldberg is now calling for a systematic effort on the part of disease ecologists, epidemiologists and social scientists to understand all the ways by which diseases might find their way from nature into human hosts. (nature.com)
  • In 1982, CDC initiated surveillance for LD, and in 1990, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists adopted a resolution that designated LD a nationally notifiable disease. (cdc.gov)
  • DMD can decompose the complex evolution of disease cases into linear combinations of simple spatial patterns or structures (modes) with time-dependent mode amplitudes (coefficients). (cdc.gov)
  • It is also the latest example of an ongoing emergence of infectious diseases for which we need a better understanding of their ecology and evolution. (nsf.gov)
  • Published May 17 in Nature Ecology and Evolution , Smithsonian scientists and partners provide a framework for a new approach to modeling infectious diseases. (phys.org)
  • In particular, an approach which is agnostic to the taxonomy of the host, focusing on the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes inherent to a pathogenic lifestyle (e.g., transmission, host immune or other defenses, virulence, or species interactions), promises rapid conceptual and technical advances. (springer.com)
  • Demographic factors are fundamental in shaping infectious disease dynamics. (usgs.gov)
  • Applying systems-level thinking to forecast disease emergence requires a fundamental change in how we conceptualize infectious diseases. (phys.org)
  • Understanding the transmission patterns and dynamics of COVID-19 is critical to effective monitoring, intervention, and control for future pandemics. (cdc.gov)
  • Bridging these disciplinary and taxonomic gaps promises novel insights and important synergistic advances in control of infectious disease. (springer.com)
  • and applying this knowledge to highlight weak points in transmission that could be exploited by new and/or existing control strategies. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Stability and bifurcation analysis of an infectious disease model with different optimal control strategies. (zbmath.org)
  • Vaccines are critical to the prevention and control of many communicable diseases and therefore underpin global health security. (who.int)
  • To accurately understand and explain epidemic dynamics, information is required on the underlying contact network of a host population, i.e., a network that contains all contact persons potentially at risk for infection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • At least one study suggests that MERS-CoV has the possibility of transmission from mildly ill or asymptomatic individuals 4 . (nature.com)
  • The main cause of the outspread of this virus is the contact of infected person with healthy individuals because it was found in study that this infection is usually caused by transmission of globules through coughing or sneezing. (hindawi.com)
  • This study presents a new deterministic model for assessing the population-level impact of mosquito insecticide resistance on malaria transmission dynamics. (ku.edu)
  • A study on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 considering the impact of asymptomatic infection. (zbmath.org)
  • as well as unique transmission challenge study on volunteers (Nottingham). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Stat Med, 2004) or to study heterogeneity in S. pneumoniae transmission in schools (JASA, 2006). (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The objective of this study was to appraise the socio-economic and demographic dynamics of HIV / AIDS epidemic in South-Western Uganda . (bvsalud.org)
  • It also looks at how the notion of biosecurity has intervened in the study of zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases. (hku.hk)
  • Researchers say this new model will require expertise and collaboration across fields such as veterinary and human medicine, disease ecology, biodiversity conservation, biotechnology and anthropology. (phys.org)
  • Recently, for example, in collaboration with colleagues in the Department, we have analysed all publically available epidemiologic and genetic data to ascertain under-reporting and selection bias in the ongoing epidemic of MERS-CoV, as well as the transmission scenario for this virus. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Super-spreading has triggered explosive chains of transmission in other outbreaks such as SARS, MERS and Ebola. (ijpr.org)
  • For example, this type of approach has proven successful in advancing our understanding of two recent emerging diseases, white nose syndrome in bats and chytridiomycosis in frogs (Berger et al. (springer.com)
  • Healthcare worker protection and effective public health measures for emerging infectious diseases require guidance based upon a solid understanding of modes of transmission. (nature.com)
  • Evidence suggests that other emerging coronavirus diseases (e.g. (nature.com)
  • By understanding the various ways that we can contact [disease] reservoirs, and also how that changes over time, that helps us to anticipate new emerging infectious diseases. (nature.com)
  • Bats, rodents and various other mammals host a large number of emerging diseases, too. (nature.com)
  • These features, associated with the increasing trend of globalization and the development of information technology, are expected to be shared by other emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • SARS is the acronym for severe acute respiratory syndrome, a disease also caused by a coronavirus. (ijpr.org)
  • Nishiura H. Early efforts in modeling the incubation period of infectious diseases with an acute course of illness. (who.int)
  • However, monkeys and apes are only one potential reservoir for new human diseases. (nature.com)
  • Simulations of the model, using data relevant to malaria transmission dynamics in Ethiopia (a malaria-endemic nation), show that the use of optimal ITNs alone, or in combination with optimal IRS, is more effective than the singular implementation of an optimal IRS-only strategy. (ku.edu)
  • Predicting vector borne diseases transmission often requires inclusion of detailed heterogeneity in space and time and inclusion of climate and its projected change. (lshtm.ac.uk)
  • Bacterial Zoonoses Br, Div of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • While nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is reported, the role of aerosol transmission and environmental contamination remains unclear, and infection preventionists require further data to inform appropriate practices 8 . (nature.com)
  • And this disease is found to be more deadly than the coronavirus Sars. (hindawi.com)
  • We use empirically determined distributions of incubation period, infectivity, and generation time to quantify how the duration of quarantine affects onward transmission from traced contacts of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases and from returning travellers. (elifesciences.org)
  • Participants 96 consecutively admitted patients with laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: 22 with mild disease and 74 with severe disease. (bmj.com)
  • SARS incubation and quarantine times: when is an exposed individual known to be disease free? (who.int)
  • Here we link genetic variation with differential susceptibility of white-tailed deer to chronic wasting disease (CWD), with implications for fitness and disease-driven genetic selection. (nih.gov)
  • Existing models are limited in their ability to predict disease emergence, since they rarely consider the dynamics of the hosts and ecosystems from which pandemics emerge. (phys.org)
  • For example, wearable devices and smartphone apps can be used to inform physical distancing and contact tracing to reduce the likelihood of viral transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • Quarantine lowers onward transmission in two ways: first, preventing transmission prior to symptom onset (with the assumption that symptomatic individuals will isolate) and decreasing overall transmission from persistently asymptomatic individuals. (elifesciences.org)
  • Using these tools for long-term monitoring has been proposed for early disease detection, supporting preventative care, and " real-time personalized medicine . (cdc.gov)