Published: 03 September 2024 Thichumpa, W., Wiratsudakul, A., Suwanpakdee, S. et al. Study of dog population dynamics and rabies awareness in Thailand using a school-based participatory research approach. Sci Rep 14, 20477 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71207-7 Corresponding author Correspondence to Wirichada Pan-ngum. Abstract Rabies is a neglected disease primarily related to dog-mediated transmission to humans. Accurate dog demographic and dynamic data are essential […]
BMGF-MASHA PhD BURSARIES in Mathematical Modelling for Malaria Elimination in Southern Africa Closing date: 5 September 2022. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. The Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa (MASHA), a research group at the University of Cape Town (www.masha.uct.ac.za) is offering PhD bursaries to support a Bill and Melinda Gates […]
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Modelling COVID-19 transmission: from data to intervention Zhongwei Jia Zuhong Lu Published:April 01, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30258-9 The speed and scope of detection of an infectious disease, in particular, timely identification and reporting of a new pathogen, is a major indicator of a country’s ability to control infectious diseases. Findings of the Global Health Security (GHS) index 1 […]
Modelling the COVID-19 epidemic and implementation of population-wide interventions in Italy Giulia Giordano, Franco Blanchini, Raffaele Bruno, Patrizio Colaneri, Alessandro Di Filippo, Angela Di Matteo & Marta Colaneri Nature Medicine (2020)
The demographic structure of populations in both more developed and less developed countries is changing: increases in life expectancy and declining fertility have led to older populations and smaller households. The implications of these demographic changes for the spread and control of infectious diseases are not fully understood. While reasonable over short time frames, for example […]
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32277-3/fulltext Authors: Alastair Heffernan, Graham S Cooke, Shevanthi Nayagam, Mark Thursz, Timothy B Hallett Summary Background The revolution in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment through the development of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has generated international interest in the global elimination of the disease as a public health threat. In 2017, this led WHO to establish elimination […]
Virlogeux et al. BMC Medicine (2017) 15:217, DOI 10.1186/s12916-017-0979-1 BACKGROUND: HCV treatment uptake has drastically increased in HIV-HCV coinfected patients in France since directacting antiviral (DAA) treatment approval, resulting in HCV cure in 63% of all HIV-HCV patients by the end of 2015. We investigated the impact of scaling-up DAA on HCV prevalence in the […]
The burden of transmitted multi-drug resistance among epidemics of tuberculosis A transmission model.pdf A dynamic transmission model of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) epidemic was constructed with the inclusion of transmission-related and treatment-related acquisition of resistance. This modelling study showed that most of the incident MDR-TB cases are more likely from transmission than treatment-related acquisition of […]
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of tropical infections which are especially common in low-income populations in developing regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They are caused by a variety of pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, protozoa and helminths.