Mathematical modeling of climate change and malaria transmission dynamics: a historical review

SE Eikenberry, AB Gumel - Journal of mathematical biology, 2018 - Springer
Malaria, one of the greatest historical killers of mankind, continues to claim around half a
million lives annually, with almost all deaths occurring in children under the age of five living …

HIV transmission and source–sink dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

JT Okano, K Sharp, E Valdano, L Palk, S Blower - The Lancet HIV, 2020 - thelancet.com
Multiple phylogenetic studies of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa have shown that mobility-driven
transmission frequently occurs: many communities export and import strains. Mobility-driven …

Spatial spread of malaria and economic frontier expansion in the Brazilian Amazon

PF Souza, DR Xavier, MC Suarez Mutis, JC da Mota… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The temporal and spatial evolution of malaria was described for the postfrontier phase of the
Brazilian Amazon in 2003–2013. The current ecological study aimed to understand the …

Vector-borne epidemics driven by human mobility

D Soriano-Paños, JH Arias-Castro, A Reyna-Lara… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Vector-borne epidemics are progressively becoming a global burden, especially those
related to flaviviruses, and the effects of different factors such as climate change or the …

The impact of spatial connectivity on NPIs effectiveness

CE Sabbatini, G Pullano, L Di Domenico… - BMC Infectious …, 2024 - Springer
Background France implemented a combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)
to manage the COVID-19 pandemic between September 2020 and June 2021. These …

Infectious disease modeling

X Liu, P Stechlinski - A Hybrid System Approach. Cham: Springer, 2017 - Springer
Human life expectancy has increased over the past three centuries, from approximately 30
years in 1700 to approximately 70 years in 1970 [4]; one of the main factors of this …

[HTML][HTML] Practical unidentifiability of a simple vector-borne disease model: Implications for parameter estimation and intervention assessment

YH Kao, MC Eisenberg - Epidemics, 2018 - Elsevier
Mathematical modeling has an extensive history in vector-borne disease epidemiology, and
is increasingly used for prediction, intervention design, and understanding mechanisms …

Determinants of MDA impact and designing MDAs towards malaria elimination

B Gao, S Saralamba, Y Lubell, LJ White, AM Dondorp… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Malaria remains at the forefront of scientific research and global political and funding
agendas. Malaria models have consistently oversimplified how mass interventions are …

Spatial heterogeneity, host movement and mosquito-borne disease transmission

MA Acevedo, O Prosper, K Lopiano, N Ruktanonchai… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Mosquito-borne diseases are a global health priority disproportionately affecting low-income
populations in tropical and sub-tropical countries. These pathogens live in mosquitoes and …

Mapping socioeconomic inequalities in malaria in Sub-Sahara African countries

G Carrasco-Escobar, K Fornace, T Benmarhnia - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Despite reductions in malaria incidence and mortality across Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries,
malaria control and elimination efforts are currently facing multiple global challenges such …