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Quantifying the transmission potential of pandemic influenza
Gerardo Chowell, Hiroshi Nishiura
This article reviews quantitative methods to estimate the basic reproduction number of pandemic influenza, a key threshold quantity to help determine the intensity of interventions…
The Basic Reproductive Number of Ebola and the Effects of Public Health Measures: The Cases of Congo and Uganda
Gerardo Chowell, Nick W. Hengartner, Carlos Castillo-Chavez +2
Despite improved control measures, Ebola remains a serious public health risk in African regions where recurrent outbreaks have been observed since the initial epidemic in 1976. Us…
SARS oubreaks in Ontario, Hong Kong and Singapore: the role of diagnosis and isolation as a control mechanism
Gerardo Chowell, Paul W. Fenimore, Melissa A. Castillo-Garsow +1
In this article we use global and regional data from the SARS epidemic in conjunction with a model of susceptible, exposed, infective, diagnosed, and recovered classes of people (`…