Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

The continued emergence and re-emergence of pathogens represent an ongoing,
sometimes major, threat to populations. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) and their …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

The recently discovered Parrondo's paradox claims that two losing games can result, under
random or periodic alternation of their dynamics, in a winning game:“losing+ losing …

Human cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome caused by Sin Nombre virus are the
endpoint of complex ecological cascade from weather conditions, population dynamics of …

Background Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a life threatening disease transmitted
by the rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus in Chile. Hantavirus outbreaks are typically small …

Simple random walk considerations are used to interpret rodent population data collected in
Hantavirus-related investigations in Panama regarding the short-tailed cane mouse …

Orthohantaviruses, cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, nephropathia epidemica,
and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, are major public health problems all over the world …

The propagation of hantavirus infection in rodents is described by a spatio-temporal
susceptible-exposed-infective-recovered (SEIR) compartmental model that distinguishes …

Counterintuitive dynamics of various biological phenomena occur when composite system
dynamics differ qualitatively from that of their component systems. Such composite systems …