We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

Human‐induced landscape change associated with habitat loss and fragmentation places
wildlife populations at risk. One issue in these landscapes is a change in the prevalence of …

Heterogeneities in contact networks have a major effect in determining whether a pathogen
can become epidemic or persist at endemic levels. Epidemic models that determine which …

The advent of geographic online social networks such as Foursquare, where users
voluntarily signal their current location, opens the door to powerful studies on human …

Contact rates and patterns among individuals in a geographic area drive transmission of
directly-transmitted pathogens, making it essential to understand and estimate contacts for …

This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics. It offers an easy-
to-follow implementation and analysis of mathematical epidemiology. It focuses on recent …

There are many different factors involved in parasitism. The general concept of “filters”
proposed by Combes includes “encounter filters”(behavior, biodiversity) and “compatibility …

Transmission is a fundamental step in the life cycle of every parasite but it is also one of the
most challenging processes to model and quantify. In most host–parasite models, the …

Hantaviruses can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the Americas and
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia. In recent decades, repeated …

The number of cattle herds placed under movement restrictions in Great Britain (GB) due to
the suspected presence of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has progressively increased over the …