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Could short-lasting non-specific immunity explain seasonal spacing of epidemic diseases?
Gorm Gruner Jensen, Florian Uekermann, Kim Sneppen +1
Common respiratory viruses cause seasonal epidemics in sequential patterns. The underlying mechanisms for this pattern have been debated for some time. For influenza, contenders in…
Characterizing the reproduction number of epidemics with early sub-exponential growth dynamics
Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen +1
Early estimates of the transmission potential of emerging and re-emerging infections are increasingly used to inform public health authorities on the level of risk posed by outbrea…
A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks
Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Gerardo Chowell
A better characterization of the early growth dynamics of an epidemic is needed to dissect the important drivers of disease transmission. We introduce a 2-parameter generalized-gro…
The Western Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic exhibits both global exponential and local polynomial growth rates
Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, James M. Hyman +1
Background: While many infectious disease epidemics are initially characterized by an exponential growth in time, we show that district-level Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in…