Mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics

CI Siettos, L Russo - Virulence, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last years, an intensive worldwide effort is speeding up the developments in the
establishment of a global surveillance network for combating pandemics of emergent and re …

Using geographic information systems and decision support systems for the prediction, prevention, and control of vector-borne diseases

L Eisen, RJ Eisen - Annual review of entomology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Emerging and resurging vector-borne diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality,
especially in the developing world. We focus on how advances in mapping, Geographic …

Hitting hotspots: spatial targeting of malaria for control and elimination

T Bousema, JT Griffin, RW Sauerwein, DL Smith… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Hitting Hotspots: Spatial Targeting of Malaria for Control and Elimination | PLOS Medicine Skip
to main content Advertisement PLOS Medicine Browse Current Issue Journal Archive Special …

Novel serologic biomarkers provide accurate estimates of recent Plasmodium falciparum exposure for individuals and communities

DA Helb, KKA Tetteh, PL Felgner… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Tools to reliably measure Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) exposure in individuals and
communities are needed to guide and evaluate malaria control interventions. Serologic …

Stable and unstable malaria hotspots in longitudinal cohort studies in Kenya

P Bejon, TN Williams, A Liljander, AM Noor… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Infectious diseases often demonstrate heterogeneity of transmission among
host populations. This heterogeneity reduces the efficacy of control strategies, but also …

Space-time patterns, change, and propagation of COVID-19 risk relative to the intervention scenarios in Bangladesh

A Masrur, M Yu, W Luo, A Dewan - International journal of environmental …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be a significant public health
threat worldwide, particularly in densely populated countries such as Bangladesh with …

Quantifying connectivity between local Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite populations using identity by descent

AR Taylor, SF Schaffner, GC Cerqueira… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
With the rapidly increasing abundance and accessibility of genomic data, there is a growing
interest in using population genetic approaches to characterize fine-scale dispersal of …

A micro-epidemiological analysis of febrile malaria in Coastal Kenya showing hotspots within hotspots

P Bejon, TN Williams, C Nyundo, SI Hay, D Benz… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Malaria transmission is spatially heterogeneous. This reduces the efficacy of control
strategies, but focusing control strategies on clusters or 'hotspots' of transmission may be …

Statistically-robust clustering techniques for mapping spatial hotspots: A survey

Y Xie, S Shekhar, Y Li - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mapping of spatial hotspots, ie, regions with significantly higher rates of generating cases of
certain events (eg, disease or crime cases), is an important task in diverse societal domains …

Geographic variation in late-stage cervical cancer diagnosis

IO Sokale, AP Thrift, J Montealegre… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There are stark disparities in cervical cancer burden in the United States, notably
by race and ethnicity and geography. Late-stage diagnosis is an indicator of inadequate …