Background: Interventions are now in place worldwide to reduce transmission of the novel
coronavirus. Assessing temporal variations in transmission in different countries is essential …

Combinations of intense non-pharmaceutical interventions (lockdowns) were introduced
worldwide to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Many governments have begun to …

The effective reproduction number, Rt, of Ebola virus disease was estimated using country-
specific data reported from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to the World Health …

A Bayesian approach to the prediction of occurred‐but‐not‐yet‐reported events is
developed for application in real‐time public health surveillance. The motivation was the …

During an infectious disease outbreak, timely information on the number of new symptomatic
cases is crucial. However, the reporting of new cases is usually subject to delay due to the …

Background Accurate estimation of the effective reproductive number (R e) of epidemic
outbreaks is of central relevance to public health policy and decision making. We present …

Background Mobile phone use has been increasing rapidly in the past decades and, in
parallel, so has the annual incidence of certain types of brain cancers. However, it remains …

In 2014–2016, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa experienced the largest and
longest Ebola epidemic since the discovery of the virus in 1976. During the epidemic …

One use of infectious disease surveillance systems is the statistical aberration detection
performed on time series of counts resulting from the aggregation of individual case reports …

Real-time surveillance is a crucial element in the response to infectious disease outbreaks.
However, the interpretation of incidence data is often hampered by delays occurring at …