The twenty-first century has witnessed a wave of severe infectious disease outbreaks, not
least the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating impact on lives and livelihoods …

Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been employed to reduce the transmission of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), yet these measures are …

Accurate estimation of the parameters characterising infectious disease transmission is vital
for optimising control interventions during epidemics. A valuable metric for assessing the …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

As with many pathogens, most dengue infections are subclinical and therefore unobserved.
Coupled with limited understanding of the dynamic behaviour of potential serological …

Many models for the spread of infectious diseases in populations have been analyzed
mathematically and applied to specific diseases. Threshold theorems involving the basic …

Networks and the epidemiology of directly transmitted infectious diseases are fundamentally
linked. The foundations of epidemiology and early epidemiological models were based on …

Immunosuppression after measles is known to predispose people to opportunistic infections
for a period of several weeks to months. Using population-level data, we show that measles …

Seasonal variations in temperature, rainfall and resource availability are ubiquitous and can
exert strong pressures on population dynamics. Infectious diseases provide some of the best …