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Structures of the Basic Reproduction Number Across Compartmental Disease Models
Zhuolin Qu, Abhi Ashwath
The basic reproduction number is the central dimensionless quantity in mathematical epidemiology, characterizing the threshold for disease outbreak and the early growth rate…
Travelling Waves in Wolbachia Spread Dynamics
Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu, Eddy Kwessi
Wolbachia, a maternally transmitted endosymbiont, offers a powerful biological control strategy for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, Zika, and malaria. We develop an integro…
Improving Wolbachia-Based Control Programs in Urban Settings: Insights from Spatial Modeling
Daniela Florez, Ricardo Cortez, James M. Hyman +1
Arboviral diseases remain a major public health concern, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions where mosquito populations thrive. One promising strategy to curb transmis…
Multistage spatial model for informing release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes as disease control
Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu
Wolbachia is a naturally occurring bacterium that can infect Aedes mosquitoes and reduce the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya.…
Modeling sustained transmission of Wolbachia among Anopheles mosquitoes: Implications for malaria control in Haiti
Daniela Florez, Alyssa Young, Kerlly J. Bernabe +2
Wolbachia infection in Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes can render mosquitoes less capable of spreading malaria. We develop and analyze an ordinary differential equation model to eva…
Modeling Immunity to Malaria with an Age-Structured PDE Framework
Zhuolin Qu, Denis Patterson, Lauren Childs +4
Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects young children, with two-thirds of fa…
Sensitivity analysis in an Immuno-Epidemiological Vector-Host Model
Hayriye Gulbudak, Zhuolin Qu, Fabio Milner +1
Sensitivity Analysis (SA) is a useful tool to measure the impact of changes in model parameters on the infection dynamics, particularly to quantify the expected efficacy of disease…
Modeling spatial waves of Wolbachia invasion for controlling mosquito-borne diseases
Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu, James Mac Hyman
Wolbachia is a natural bacterium that can infect mosquitoes and reduce their ability to transmit mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya. Field trials…
Using an agent-based sexual-network model to analyze the impact of mitigation efforts for controlling chlamydia
Asma Azizi, Jeremy Dewar, Zhuolin Qu +1
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is the most reported sexually transmitted infection in the United States with a major cause of infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease among women. D…
Generating a Heterosexual Bipartite Network Embedded in Social Network
Asma Azizi, Zhuolin Qu, Bryan Lewis +1
We describe how to generate a heterosexual network with a prescribed joint-degree distribution that is embedded in a prescribed large-scale social contact network. The structure of…
Modelling the Impact of Screening Men for Chlamydia Trachomatis on the Prevalence in Women
Zhuolin Qu, Asma Azizi, Norine Schmidt +4
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States and causes important reproductive morbidity in women. The Centers for Disease Control an…
Modeling the transmission of Wolbachia in mosquitoes for controlling mosquito-borne diseases
Zhuolin Qu, Ling Xue, James M. Hyman
We develop and analyze an ordinary differential equation model to assess the potential effectiveness of infecting mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacteria to control the ongoing mosq…