Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Networks and the epidemiology of directly transmitted infectious diseases are fundamentally
linked. The foundations of epidemiology and early epidemiological models were based on …

Summary Background In December, 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, emerged in Wuhan, China. Since then, the city of …

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

Background A better characterization of the early growth dynamics of an epidemic is needed
to dissect the important drivers of disease transmission, refine existing transmission models …

Social insect colonies have evolved collective immune defences against parasites. These
'social immune systems' result from the cooperation of the individual group members to …

Infectious diseases are a threat to human health and a hindrance to societal development.
Consequently, the spread of diseases in both time and space has been widely studied …

Contact tracing, followed by treatment or isolation, is a key control measure in the battle
against infectious diseases. It is an extreme form of locally targeted control, and as such has …

The environment plays an important role in disease dynamics and in determining the health
of individuals. Specifically, the built environment has a large impact on the prevention and …

A survey of the use of graph theoretical techniques in Biology is presented. In particular,
recent work on identifying and modelling the structure of bio-molecular networks is …