3 papers
q-bio.PE2018
Assessing the impact of non-vaccinators: quantifying the average length of infection chains in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
Sherry Towers, Linda J. S. Allen, Fred Brauer +1
Analytical expressions for the basic reproduction number, R0, have been obtained in the past for a wide variety of mathematical models for infectious disease spread, along with exp…
q-bio.PE2016
Some Models for Epidemics of Vector-Transmitted Diseases
Fred Brauer, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Anuj Mubayi +1
Vector-transmitted diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunya have been spreading rapidly in many parts of the world. The Zika virus has been known since 1947 and invaded South…
q-bio.QM2016
Estimate of the reproduction number of the 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Barranquilla, Colombia, and estimation of the relative role of sexual transmission
Sherry Towers, Fred Brauer, Carlos Castillo-Chavez +3
Background: In 2015, the Zika arbovirus (ZIKV) began circulating in the Americas, rapidly expanding its global geographic range in explosive outbreaks. Unusual among mosquito-borne…