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Modelling sexual partnership dynamics and population heterogeneities in agent-based dynamic network models
Priyanka Nair-Turkich, Patricia T. Campbell, Nicholas Geard
Population-level heterogeneities, combined with temporal fluctuations in sexual partnerships, shape the structure of sexual contact networks and can substantially influence the spr…
Should public health policy exempt cases with low viral load from isolation during an epidemic?: a modelling study
Jiahao Diao, Rebecca H. Chisholm, Nicholas Geard +1
During the COVID-19 pandemic, case isolation emerged as a key non-pharmaceutical intervention in pandemic response. Its effectiveness hinges on the timing of isolation, which is of…
A model-based assessment of social isolation practices for COVID-19 outbreak response in residential care facilities
Cameron Zachreson, Ruarai Tobin, Camelia Walker +4
Residential aged-care facilities (RACFs, also called long-term care facilities, aged care homes, or nursing homes) have elevated risks of respiratory infection outbreaks and associ…
Correlation of viral loads in disease transmission chains could bias early estimates of the reproduction number
Thomas Harris, Nicholas Geard, Cameron Zachreson
Early estimates of the transmission properties of a newly emerged pathogen are critical to an effective public health response, and are often based on limited outbreak data. Here,…
MPVNN: Mutated Pathway Visible Neural Network Architecture for Interpretable Prediction of Cancer-specific Survival Risk
Gourab Ghosh Roy, Nicholas Geard, Karin Verspoor +1
Survival risk prediction using gene expression data is important in making treatment decisions in cancer. Standard neural network (NN) survival analysis models are black boxes with…
Modelling the effect of within-host dynamics on the diversity of a multi-strain pathogen
Nefel Tellioglu, Nicholas Geard, Rebecca H. Chisholm
Multi-strain pathogens such as Group A Streptococcus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus cause millions of infections each year with a substantial health burden. C…
Global and local epidemiology of Group A Streptococcus indicates that naturally-acquired immunity is enduring and strain-specific
Rebecca H. Chisholm, Jake A. Lacey, Jan Kokko +7
The bacterium Group A Streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes, GAS) is a human-specific pathogen and a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Despite decades of research our…
COVID-19 in low-tolerance border quarantine systems: impact of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2
Cameron Zachreson, Freya M. Shearer, David J. Price +4
In controlling transmission of COVID-19, the effectiveness of border quarantine strategies is a key concern for jurisdictions in which the local prevalence of disease and immunity…
Risk mapping for COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia using mobility data
Cameron Zachreson, Lewis Mitchell, Michael J. Lydeamore +3
COVID-19 is highly transmissible and containing outbreaks requires a rapid and effective response. Because infection may be spread by people who are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic…