Epidemic processes in complex networks

R Pastor-Satorras, C Castellano, P Van Mieghem… - Reviews of modern …, 2015 - APS
In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

Infectious disease transmission and contact networks in wildlife and livestock

ME Craft - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans

JH Epstein, SJ Anthony, A Islam… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging bat-borne zoonotic virus that causes near-annual
outbreaks of fatal encephalitis in South Asia—one of the most populous regions on Earth. In …

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

RK Plowright, P Eby, PJ Hudson… - … of the royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Viruses that originate in bats may be the most notorious emerging zoonoses that spill over
from wildlife into domestic animals and humans. Understanding how these infections filter …

Assessing the impact of coordinated COVID-19 exit strategies across Europe

NW Ruktanonchai, JR Floyd, S Lai, CW Ruktanonchai… - Science, 2020 - science.org
As rates of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases decline across Europe owing
to nonpharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing policies and lockdown …

Heterogeneity in pathogen transmission

KL VanderWaal, VO Ezenwa - Functional Ecology, 2016 - JSTOR
1. Heterogeneity in the ability of hosts to transmit pathogens is among the most fundamental
concepts in disease dynamics and has major implications for disease control strategies. 2 …

Modeling human mobility responses to the large-scale spreading of infectious diseases

S Meloni, N Perra, A Arenas, S Gómez, Y Moreno… - Scientific reports, 2011 - nature.com
Current modeling of infectious diseases allows for the study of realistic scenarios that
include population heterogeneity, social structures and mobility processes down to the …

Epidemic modeling in metapopulation systems with heterogeneous coupling pattern: Theory and simulations

V Colizza, A Vespignani - Journal of theoretical biology, 2008 - Elsevier
The spatial structure of populations is a key element in the understanding of the large-scale
spreading of epidemics. Motivated by the recent empirical evidence on the heterogeneous …

Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease?

JO Lloyd-Smith, PC Cross, CJ Briggs… - Trends in ecology & …, 2005 - cell.com
Host population thresholds for the invasion or persistence of infectious disease are core
concepts of disease ecology and underlie disease control policies based on culling and …

Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread

CX Cunningham, S Comte, H McCallum… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases are strong drivers of wildlife population dynamics, however, empirical
analyses from the early stages of pathogen emergence are rare. Tasmanian devil facial …