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Showing 1 to 20 of 2068 for “"Infectious"”.
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Mathematical modeling of infectious disease
The battleground of infectious disease enlists two chief forces: the defending immune system, and the invading pathogen. The immune system consists of a diverse population of leukocytes that recognize foreign material and defend against pathogens. An outstanding feature of this defense is …
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Spatial spread of infectious diseases
… of simple diffusion have on the spreading of infectious diseases. This study is undertaken within the context of the SI and SIR models, two of the most fundamental models for the propagation of infectious diseases. The diffusive SI and SIR models are supplemented with no flux boundary …
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Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases
… dissertation, we studied mathematical models of infectious diseases that consist of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs). An ODE model is formulated to describe the dynamics of wild mosquitoes when Wolbachia-infected female and male mosquitoes are …
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Computational approaches to understanding infectious disease
Infectious diseases derive from organisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites that can be passed from person to person, transmitted via bites from insects or animals, or acquired through ingestion of contaminated food or water or environmental exposure. Infectious diseases cause roughly …
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Modular CRISPR-diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases continue to represent a significant fraction of worldwide disease burden. A critical part of lowering this burden entails effective testing strategies, as underscored by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The goals of diagnostics, screening, and surveillance have demanded distinct …
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Multiscale Modelling of Environmentally Transmitted Infectious Diseases
… modelling approach in predicting the dynamics of infectious disease systems. Yet, there is still a lack of evidence that generally indicates which among the different categories of multiscale models of infectious disease systems is more appropriate to use in multiscale modelling of infectious …
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Emerging Infectious Disease: Host and Parasite Perspectives
Avian malaria and related haematozoa are nearly ubiquitous parasites that can impose fitness costs of variable severity and may, in some cases, cause substantial mortality in their host populations. One example of the latter, the emergence of avian malaria in the endemic avifauna of Hawaii, has …
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Rapid analysis of pharmacology for infectious diseases.
<p>Infectious diseases represent a multitude of threats to populations in both the developed and developing world, from the emergence of drug resistant bacteria and new pathogens to the ancient killers of the neglected topical diseases. Yet a common problem unites all infectious diseases, that is …
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Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Australia
This thesis is a body of work that was completed whilst undertaking the Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) program at the Australian National University from February 2019 to November 2020. During this time, I was placed at the Department of Health, Office of Health Protection, in the Health …
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Applied epidemiology of infectious diseases in Australia
… was with the Zoonoses, Foodborne and Emerging Infectious Diseases section (ZoFE), within the Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health. This placement has allowed me to apply the skills and knowledge of the epidemiology of infectious diseases acquired throughout my …
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Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Australia
This thesis is a body of work that was completed whilst undertaking the Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) program at the Australian National University from February 2019 to November 2020. During this time, I was placed at the Department of Health, Office of Health Protection, in the Health …
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Applied epidemiology of infectious diseases in Australia
… was with the Zoonoses, Foodborne and Emerging Infectious Diseases section (ZoFE), within the Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health. This placement has allowed me to apply the skills and knowledge of the epidemiology of infectious diseases acquired throughout my …
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Estimation of hidden carriers of infectious diseases
We consider the general problem of estimating missing information in a given dataset. We focus specifically on the problem of estimating the asymptomatic segment of the population that is COVID-19 infected, given datasets for which subjects have self-selected to be tested, that is, the data do not …
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Algorithms for Understanding and Fighting Infectious Disease
Infectious disease is a persistent and substantial threat to human health, with consequences that include widespread mortality, suffering, and economic disruption. This thesis presents several algorithmic advances that, when coupled with biotechnologies for data collection and perturbation, are …
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Modeling transmission heterogeneity for infectious disease outbreaks
The transmissibility of a given infectious disease is often described by its basic reproduction number (Ro) - namely, the average number of secondary infections caused by an index case in a fully susceptible population. Typical approaches to modeling transmission dynamics associated with infectious …
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News Analytics for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance
… analyze, detect, and forecast outbreaks of infectious diseases, especially new diseases or diseases spreading to new regions. However, these sources are in general unstructured (noisy) and construction of surveillance tools ranging from real-time disease outbreak monitoring to construction …
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Modeling Host Immune Responses in Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites have affected humans historically. Infectious diseases remain a major cause of premature death and a public health concern globally with increased mortality and significant economic burden. Unvaccinated individuals, people with …
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Human enteroids as a model for infectious disease
The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a major site of host-pathogen interactions. As such, many human pathogens have evolved to either use the GI tract as a portal of entry to gain access to distal sites in the body or cause acute disease within the GI tract. For many years we lacked a suitable …
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