The basic reproduction number (R0) of measles: a systematic review

FM Guerra, S Bolotin, G Lim, J Heffernan… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
The basic reproduction number, R nought (R 0), is defined as the average number of
secondary cases of an infectious disease arising from a typical case in a totally susceptible …

[HTML][HTML] Estimates of the reproduction number for seasonal, pandemic, and zoonotic influenza: a systematic review of the literature

M Biggerstaff, S Cauchemez, C Reed, M Gambhir… - BMC infectious …, 2014 - Springer
The potential impact of an influenza pandemic can be assessed by calculating a set of
transmissibility parameters, the most important being the reproduction number (R), which is …

[HTML][HTML] Complexity of the basic reproduction number (R0)

PL Delamater, EJ Street, TF Leslie… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The basic reproduction number (R 0), also called the basic reproduction ratio or rate or the
basic reproductive rate, is an epidemiologic metric used to describe the contagiousness or …

Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models

EA Mordecai, JM Cohen, MV Evans… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Recent epidemics of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have heightened the need to
understand the seasonal and geographic range of transmission by Aedes aegypti and Ae …

An introduction to compartmental modeling for the budding infectious disease modeler

JC Blackwood, LM Childs - Letters in Biomathematics, 2018 - lettersinbiomath.org
Mathematical models are ubiquitous in the study of the transmission dynamics of infectious
diseases, In particular, the classic'susceptible-infectious-recovered'(SIR<) paradigm …

A statistical analysis of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy and Spain

J Chu - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that was first reported at the end of 2019 has impacted
almost every aspect of life as we know it. This paper focuses on the incidence of the disease …

Analysis, prediction, and control of epidemics: A survey from scalar to dynamic network models

L Zino, M Cao - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models of epidemic spreading have
emerged as powerful tools to produce valuable predictions of the evolution of the pandemic …

Estimated Effects of Projected Climate Change on the Basic Reproductive Number of the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis

NH Ogden, M Radojevic, X Wu… - Environmental …, 2014 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The extent to which climate change may affect human health by increasing risk
from vector-borne diseases has been under considerable debate. Objectives: We quantified …

Metapopulation network models for understanding, predicting, and managing the coronavirus disease COVID-19

D Calvetti, AP Hoover, J Rose, E Somersalo - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mathematical models of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) spread are used
for guiding the design of mitigation steps and hel** identify impending breaches of health …

The role of vector trait variation in vector-borne disease dynamics

LJ Cator, LR Johnson, EA Mordecai… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Many important endemic and emerging diseases are transmitted by vectors that are biting
arthropods. The functional traits of vectors can affect pathogen transmission rates directly …