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Estimating the Size of Aedes aegypti Populations from Dengue Incidence Data: Implications for the Risk of Yellow Fever, Zika Virus and Chikungunya Outbreaks
Eduardo Massad, Marcos Amaku, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho +4
In this paper we present a model to estimate the density of aedes mosquitoes in a community affected by dengue. The model is based on the fitting of a continuous function to the in…
Estimating the prevalence of infectious diseases from under-reported age-dependent compulsorily notification databases
Marcos Amaku, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, Eleazar Chaib +4
Background: National or local laws, norms or regulations (sometimes and in some countries) require medical providers to report notifiable diseases to public health authorities. Rep…
Modeling the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases in Different Scale-Free Networks with the Same Degree Distribution
Raul Ossada, José H. H. Grisi-Filho, Fernando Ferreira +1
The transmission dynamics of some infectious diseases is related to the contact structure between individuals in a network. We used five algorithms to generate contact networks wit…