Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

Transmission of many infectious diseases depends on interactions between humans,
animals, and the environment. Incorporating these complex processes in transmission …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

This book surveys significant modern contributions to the mathematical theories of
generalized heat wave equations. The first three chapters form a comprehensive survey of …

A brief introduction to the formulation of various types of stochastic epidemic models is
presented based on the well-known deterministic SIS and SIR epidemic models. Three …

Background Landscape attributes influence spatial variations in disease risk or incidence.
We present a review of the key findings from eight case studies that we conducted in Europe …

Background Lassa fever is caused by a viral haemorrhagic arenavirus that affects two to
three million people in West Africa, causing a mortality of between 5,000 and 10,000 each …

Environmental sources of infection can play a primary role in shaping epidemiological
dynamics; however, the relative impact of environmental transmission on host‐pathogen …

The capability of rodent-borne viruses to survive outside the host is critical for the
transmission dynamics within rodent populations and to humans. The transmission of …

The next generation matrix approach for calculating the basic reproduction number is
summarized for discrete-time epidemic models. This approach is applied to six disease …