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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2002, 2002
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
Series: | The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications
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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