Genomic assessment of invasion dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1

JLH Tsui, JT McCrone, B Lambert, S Bajaj, RPD Inward… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
now arise in the context of heterogeneous human connectivity and population immunity …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial dynamics of malaria transmission

SL Wu, JM Henry, DT Citron… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Ross-Macdonald model has exerted enormous influence over the study of malaria
transmission dynamics and control, but it lacked features to describe parasite dispersal …

An algebraic framework for structured epidemic modelling

S Libkind, A Baas, M Halter… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pandemic management requires that scientists rapidly formulate and analyse
epidemiological models in order to forecast the spread of disease and the effects of …

Stability analysis of an HIV/AIDS epidemic model with sexual transmission in a patchy environment

J Zhang, X Ma, Z Jin - Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A multi-patch HIV/AIDS model with heterosexual transmission is formulated to
investigate the impact of population migration on the spread of HIV/AIDS. We derive the …

Estimating SARS-CoV-2 variant fitness and the impact of interventions in England using statistical and geo-spatial agent-based models

R Hinch, J Panovska-Griffiths… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic has been extended by the evolution of more transmissible viral
variants. In autumn 2020, the B. 1.177 lineage became the dominant variant in England …

Vector-borne disease models with Lagrangian approach

D Gao, L Cao - Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2024 - Springer
We develop a multi-group and multi-patch model to study the effects of population dispersal
on the spatial spread of vector-borne diseases across a heterogeneous environment. The …

[HTML][HTML] Risk averse reproduction numbers improve resurgence detection

KV Parag, U Obolski - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The effective reproduction number R is a prominent statistic for inferring the transmissibility
of infectious diseases and effectiveness of interventions. R purportedly provides an easy-to …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing the detection of emerging infections using mobility-based spatial sampling

D Zhang, Y Ge, J Wang, H Liu, WB Zhang, X Wu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Timely and precise detection of emerging infections is imperative for effective outbreak
management and disease control. Human mobility significantly influences the spatial …

Covid-19 and mobility: determinant or consequence?

H d'Albis, E Augeraud-Véron, D Coulibaly… - Economic Theory, 2024 - Springer
This paper disentangles the relationship between COVID-19 propagation and mobility. In a
theoretical model allowing mobility to be endogenously determined by the COVID-19 …

Understanding spatiotemporal variation of social vulnerabilities from longitudinal hurricane-pandemic data: A multilevel model of the Covid-19 pandemic during …

S Abazari, OA Vanli, O Alisan, EE Ozguven - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
An important question in the context of compound disasters is the degree to which
geophysical disasters amplify the transmission of infectious diseases during pandemics and …