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Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Models, Methods, and Theory

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES FOR EMERGING AND REEMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: MODELS, AND THEORY METHODS is based on the proceedings of a successful one week workshop. The pro­ ceedings of the two-day tutorial which preceded the workshop "Introduct...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Castillo-Chavez, Carlos (Editor), Blower, Sally (Editor), Driessche, Pauline van den (Editor), Kirschner, Denise (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications
Subjects:
Biomathematics
Mathematical And Computational Biology
Physiological, Cellular And Medical Topics
Epidemiology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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