Title | Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Models, Methods, and Theory [electronic resource] / edited by Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Sally Blower, Pauline van den Driessche, Denise Kirschner, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0065-6 |
Descript | X, 377 p. online resource |
New directions in the mathematics of infectious disease -- Fred Brauer: The man and his mathematics -- Kenneth L. Cooke: Researcher, educator par excellence -- Maximal prevalence and the basic reproduction number in simple epidemics -- The transition through stages with arbitrary length distributions, and applications in epidemics -- Measles outbreaks are not chaotic -- Epidemics among a population of households -- Infection transmission dynamics and vaccination program effectiveness as a function of vaccine effects in individuals -- The influence of different forms of cross-protective immunity on the population dynamics of antigenically diverse pathogens -- Dynamics of multiple strains of infectious agents coupled by cross-immunity: A comparison of models -- Virulence evolution in macro-parasites -- Mathematical models for schistosomiasis with delays and multiple definitive hosts -- Infectious disease models with chronological age structure and epidemiological age structure -- Effects of genetic heterogeneity on HIV transmission in homosexual populations -- Age-structured core group model and its impact on STD dynamics -- Global dynamics of tuberculosis models with density dependent demography -- Global stability in some SEIR epidemic models -- The global stability analysis for an SIS model with age and infection age structures -- Endemic threshold and stability in an evolutionary epidemic model -- Epilogue -- List of tutorial/workshop participants -- IMA volume 125 contents: Mathematical approaches for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases: an introduction