Introduction: Record numbers of new COVID-19 cases and deaths registered in Japan,
Europe, and other countries in 2022 aroused questions about efficacy of vaccination and …

Quantifying how difficult it is to control an emerging infectious disease is crucial to public
health decision-making, providing valuable evidence on if targeted interventions, eg …

Despite of decrease in COVID-19 testing and reporting new infections, the numbers of new
cases and deaths per capita registered in some European countries and USA in September …

This thesis is concerned with the analysis and control of stochastic biological processes that
arise in cells and in the spread of diseases. The modelling methods associated with such …

Case isolation, that is, detection and isolation of infected individuals in order to prevent
spread, is a strategy to curb infectious disease epidemics. Here, we study the efficiency of a …

Case isolation is a strategy with the potential to curb infectious disease epidemics.
Expressions for the stability boundary of a case isolation scheme defined through the …