Abstract Problem/Condition: Malaria in humans is caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the
genus Plasmodium. These parasites are transmitted by the bite of an infective female …

Background Acellular pertussis vaccine studies postulate that waning protection, particularly
after the adolescent booster, is a major contributor to the increasing US pertussis incidence …

The resurgence of pertussis over the past decades has resulted in incidence levels not
witnessed in the United States since the 1950s. The underlying causes have been the …

Pertussis has resurfaced in the UK, with incidence levels not seen since the 1980s. While
the fundamental causes of this resurgence remain the subject of much conjecture, the study …

Over the past two decades, multiple countries with high vaccine coverage have experienced
resurgent outbreaks of mumps. Worryingly, in these countries, a high proportion of cases …

In response to the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, several companies across the world
have proposed a wide variety of vaccines of different mechanisms of action. As a …

Mathematical models of childhood diseases date back to the early twentieth century. In
several cases, models that make the simplifying assumption of homogeneous time …

Likelihood-based statistical inference has been considered in most scientific fields involving
stochastic modeling. This includes infectious disease dynamics, where scientific …

In Italy, no specific recommendation toward maternal pertussis immunization during
pregnancy has been issued. However, vaccination during pregnancy will be likely integrated …

Estimating the tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) infection risk under substantial uncertainties of
the vector abundance, environmental condition and human-tick interaction is important for …