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Assessing the impact of non-vaccinators: quantifying the average length of infection chains in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
Sherry Towers, Linda J. S. Allen, Fred Brauer +1
Analytical expressions for the basic reproduction number, R0, have been obtained in the past for a wide variety of mathematical models for infectious disease spread, along with exp…
Some Models for Epidemics of Vector-Transmitted Diseases
Fred Brauer, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Anuj Mubayi +1
Vector-transmitted diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunya have been spreading rapidly in many parts of the world. The Zika virus has been known since 1947 and invaded South…
Short-term heterologous immunity after severe influenza A outbreaks
Sherry Towers, Zhilan Feng, Nathaniel Hupert
Conventional wisdom holds that influenza A and B are such genetically dissimilar viruses that infection with one cannot confer cross-immunity to the other. However, our examination…