Reconstructing the impact of COVID-19 on the immunity gap and transmission of respiratory syncytial virus in Lombardy, Italy

HJ Ang, F Menegale, G Preziosi, E Pariani, M Migliari… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of hospitalisation and
mortality in young children globally. The social distancing measures implemented against …

[PDF][PDF] Serodynamics: a review of methods for epidemiological inference using serological data

J Hay, I Routledge, S Takahashi - OSF Prepr, 2023 - files.osf.io
The availability and diversity of serological data measuring antibody responses to infectious
pathogens, accelerated in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, has enabled key …

A simulation-based method to inform serosurvey design for estimating the force of infection using existing blood samples

A Vicco, CP McCormack, B Pedrique… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extent to which dengue virus has been circulating globally and especially in Africa is
largely unknown. Testing available blood samples from previous cross-sectional serological …

Insights from serological surveillance in infectious disease epidemiology

M O'Driscoll - 2024 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Traditional infectious disease surveillance methods rely on testing of symptomatic
individuals. However, such methods are often poor indicators of the true burden of infection …

Understanding complex drivers of infectious disease transmission dynamics

EM Rees - 2023 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
Infectious disease risk depends on both individual risk factors as well as the infectious state
of the population, including current cases and immunity to disease from past exposure. For …