5 papers
Mechanics of Pandemics
Seba Contreras, Philipp Dönges, Laura Müller +24
COVID-19 and previous pandemics have shown how diseases can disrupt, threaten, and transform daily life. Since pathogens and societies are continuously evolving, every pandemic is…
Household size can explain 40% of the variance in cumulative COVID-19 incidence across Europe
Seba Contreras, Philipp Dönges, Maciej Filinski +8
Household size impacts the spread of respiratory infectious diseases: Larger households tend to boost transmission by acquiring external infections more frequently and subsequently…
Stability and bifurcations of a minimal model for the effect of PrEP-related risk compensation in epidemics of sexually transmitted infections
Piklu Mallick, Laura Müller, Antonio MarÃn-Carballo +2
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drastically reduces the risk of HIV infection if taken as prescribed, providing almost perfect protection even during unprotected sexual interco…
Testing Paradox May Explain Increased Observed Prevalence of Bacterial STIs among MSM on HIV PrEP: A Modeling Study
Laura Müller, Piklu Mallick, Antonio B. MarÃn-Carballo +6
HIV pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) has become essential for global HIV control, but its implementation coincides with rising bacterial STI rates among men who have sex with men (M…
Risk-mediated dynamic regulation of effective contacts de-synchronizes outbreaks in metapopulation epidemic models
Henrik Zunker, Philipp Dönges, Patrick Lenz +2
Metapopulation epidemic models help capture the spatial dimension of infectious disease spread by dividing heterogeneous populations into separate but interconnected communities, r…