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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"emerging infectious diseases"”.
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Modeling Emerging Infectious Diseases for Public Health Decision Support
Emerging infectious diseases (EID) pose a serious threat to global public health. Computational epidemiology is a nascent subfield of public health that can provide insight into an outbreak in advance of traditional methodologies. Research in this dissertation will use fuse nontraditional, publicly …
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Mathematical modelling of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in human and animal populations
… they all deal with the mathematical modelling of emerging infectious diseases which, beyond being the leitmotiv of this thesis, is an important research area in the field of epidemiology and public health. A minor but significant part of the thesis has a theoretical flavour. This part is dedicated …
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Identifying biological and environmental indicators of emerging infectious diseases: the case of Buruli ulcer.
… decades there have been a number of high profile infectious diseases which have swept across countries and in some cases the world. Many of these begin as generalist emerging infections; such microbes are difficult to study in the wild due to their inherently ambiguous life histories and complex …
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Millennium Bugs and Weapons of Mass Fear: Dialogs Between Science and Popular Culture in the 1990's
… of language and imagery. The signification of emerging infectious diseases, like that of AIDS, occurs primarily through the assignment and standardization of definitions and images, arrived at in a mass-mediated dialogue between science and popular culture. The meanings created in this process …
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Risk and Uncertainty in Healthcare Finance, Investment Management, and Asset Pricing
… the development and deployment of vaccines for emerging infectious diseases. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, we develop a quantitative method to simulate and evaluate various vaccine allocation strategies when the supply of vaccines is subject to stochastic shocks. We conclude this …
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Ecological and Anthropogenic Influences on a Sentinel Species' Gut Microbiome
… them vulnerable to cross-species transmission of emerging infectious diseases and pathogens. Therefore, their role as sentinels of ecosystems, as well as a greater comprehension of what aspects of habitat are driving the gut microbiome, merits conservation and research. I seek to add to our …
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Maximum containment : the most controversial labs in the world
… new vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments for emerging infectious diseases, potential biological weapons, and to contribute to the nation's biodefense. These labs were not the first dramatic reaction to the threat of biowarfare and are in fact, one product of a long history of the country's …
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Cross-scale assessment of environmental variation on RABV reservoir Desmodus rotundus
… research gaps in our current understanding of emerging infectious diseases of bat origin.
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Identifying patterns and processes of sex-biases for an emerging fungal disease of wildlife
… changes have facilitated an increase in emerging infectious diseases, threatening biodiversity globally. Identifying the individuals, species, or communities most vulnerable to disease can guide the development of conservation priorities. Processes that structure individual variation, …
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Exploring the drivers and consequences of emerging infectious disease of wildlife
Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife have threatened host populations of diverse taxa in recent history, which is largely attributable to anthropogenic global change. In three data chapters, this dissertation examines the drivers of individual- to population-level variation in how host …
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Changing Relationship Between Temperature and Pathogen Growth on Bats with White-nose Syndrome
Emerging infectious diseases (EID) pose significant threats to biodiversity. Human influence over the environment has increased opportunities for the introduction of novel pathogens to naïve hosts, potentially leading to host extinction. Understanding mechanisms of host persistence is critical for …
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Differences in Gene Expression Responses to Heat Shock Between Warm- and Cool-Adapted Isolates of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
… (Bd) is one of the most destructive emerging infectious diseases to impact wildlife populations in modern history. Bd displays drastically different patterns of infection, both between distinct amphibian species and between different climates; this has resulted in inconsistent data on …
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Determining the role of density-dependent effects in disease induced population impacts
Emerging infectious diseases have contributed to the loss of biodiversity and threaten conservation efforts across the globe. Managing infectious diseases can be challenging in wildlife, often due to the complex nature of pathogen transmission in muti-host systems that can lead to varied decline …
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A comparitive analysis of patterns of recent extinction in birds and mammals
… by a complex interaction of factors including emerging infectious diseases.
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A “tick”-Ing Threat: The Surveillance And Ecology Of The Lyme Disease System
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are the most common types of emerging infectious diseases in the world and constitute major threats to public health. Understanding the interplay between the environment, vector, and pathogen that expedite disease spread remains a challenge. The overarching goal of this …
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Tracking Pathogen Transmission at the Human-Wildlife Interface: Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) and Escherichia coli as a Model System in Chobe, Botswana
Anthropozoonotic diseases, defined as infectious diseases caused by pathogens transmitted from humans to wildlife, pose a significant health threat to wildlife populations. Many of these pathogens are also able to move from wildlife reservoirs to humans, termed zoonotic diseases, creating the …
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Applications, complexities, and opportunities of metagenomics for clinical diagnostics and viral discovery
… sequencing (mNGS) has transformed infectious disease research by enabling broad-range detection of microbial nucleic acids from clinical and environmental samples. However, despite its growing adoption in diagnostic and surveillance settings, substantial variability in analytical …
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Functional characterization of olfactory receptors and molecular species identification of vector mosquitoes.
… of etiological agents. Many of these are emerging infectious diseases including, dengue, malaria, yellow fever, and Zika. Not all species of mosquitoes are responsible for vectoring these pathogens however, so accurate identification and surveillance are extremely important and directly …
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Computational Analysis and Network-based Modeling of Cross-Species Transmissions
… spillover of pathogens is the dominant cause of emerging infectious diseases.Cross-species transmission (CST) risks are accelerated by climate change, which alters animal habitats and aggregates new combinations of host species at high population density and elevations. Modeling CST dynamics is …
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