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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Evolutionary epidemiology"”.
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Modelling spatial strategies for the durable deployment of crop disease resistance
… is a major challenge in modern agricultural epidemiology. Spatial diversification in the deployment of resistance genes, where susceptible and resistant fields are more closely intermixed, is predicted to drive lower epidemic intensities over evolutionary timescales. This is due to an …
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Population dynamics of infectious disease and pathogen evolution: modelling vaccine escape
This thesis investigates how the risk that an infectious pathogen evolves antigenically (leading to pathogen strains that evade existing immunity) depends on the vaccination coverage of its host population. Deterministic compartmental models are coupled with a parsimonious approach to pathogen …