4 papers
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…