Photocatalytic systems as an advanced environmental remediation: Recent developments, limitations and new avenues for applications

R Ahmad, Z Ahmad, AU Khan, NR Mastoi… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a promising technology especially for environmental
remediation. Despite more than a decade of worldwide research in developing …

Dynamic epidemiological models for dengue transmission: a systematic review of structural approaches

M Andraud, N Hens, C Marais, P Beutels - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Dengue is a vector-borne disease recognized as the major arbovirose with four
immunologically distant dengue serotypes coexisting in many endemic areas. Several …

Prevention and control of Zika as a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted disease: a mathematical modeling analysis

D Gao, Y Lou, D He, TC Porco, Y Kuang, G Chowell… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas poses a major global public health
emergency. While ZIKV is transmitted from human to human by bites of Aedes mosquitoes …

Climate, environmental and socio-economic change: weighing up the balance in vector-borne disease transmission

PE Parham, J Waldock… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Arguably one of the most important effects of climate change is the potential impact on
human health. While this is likely to take many forms, the implications for future transmission …

Vaccination models and optimal control strategies to dengue

HS Rodrigues, MTT Monteiro, DFM Torres - Mathematical biosciences, 2014 - Elsevier
As the development of a dengue vaccine is ongoing, we simulate an hypothetical vaccine as
an extra protection to the population. In a first phase, the vaccination process is studied as a …

A model based on cellular automata to estimate the social isolation impact on COVID-19 spreading in Brazil

PHT Schimit - Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and objective Many countries around the world experienced a high increase in
the number of COVID-19 cases after a few weeks of the first case, and along with it …

Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases

PA Kache, M Santos-Vega, AM Stewart-Ibarra… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The prevalence of diseases borne by mosquitoes, particularly in the genus Aedes, is rising
worldwide. This has been attributed, in part, to the dramatic rates of contemporary …

Successive blood meals enhance virus dissemination within mosquitoes and increase transmission potential

PM Armstrong, HY Ehrlich, T Magalhaes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The recent Zika virus (ZIKV) and chikungunya virus epidemics highlight the explosive nature
of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) transmitted by Aedes spp. mosquitoes,. Vector …

Scoping review on vector-borne diseases in urban areas: transmission dynamics, vectorial capacity and co-infection

M Eder, F Cortes, N Teixeira de Siqueira Filha… - Infectious diseases of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Transmission dynamics, vectorial capacity, and co-infections have substantial
impacts on vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affecting urban and suburban populations …

Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments

E Massaro, D Kondor, C Ratti - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Urbanization drives the epidemiology of infectious diseases to many threats and new
challenges. In this research, we study the interplay between human mobility and dengue …