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African swine fever in wild boar: investigating model assumptions and structure
Callum Shaw, Angus McLure, Kathryn Glass
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly virulent viral disease that affects both domestic pigs and wild boar. Current ASF transmission in Europe is in part driven by wild boar popula…
An examination of the generalised pooled binomial distribution and its information properties
Ben O'Neill, Angus McLure
This paper examines the statistical properties of a distributional form that arises from pooled testing for the prevalence of a binary outcome. Our base distribution is a two-param…
PoolTestR: An R package for estimating prevalence and regression modelling with pooled samples
Angus McLure, Ben O'Neill, Helen Mayfield +2
Pooled testing (also known as group testing), where diagnostic tests are performed on pooled samples, has broad applications in the surveillance of diseases in animals and humans.…
Some simple rules for estimating reproduction numbers in the presence of reservoir exposure or imported cases
Angus McLure, Kathryn Glass
The basic reproduction number () is a threshold parameter for disease extinction or survival in isolated populations. However no human population is fully isolated from other…
Modelling diverse sources of Clostridium difficile in the community: importance of animals, infants and asymptomatic carriers
Angus McLure, Archie C. A. Clements, Martyn Kirk +1
Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) affect patients in hospitals and in the community, but the relative importance of transmission in each setting is unknown. We developed a ma…