5 papers
Mobility restrictions for the control of epidemics: When do they work?
Baltazar Espinoza, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Charles Perrings
Mobility restrictions - travel advisories, trade and travel bans, border closures and, in extreme cases, area quarantines or cordons sanitaires - are among the most widely used mea…
Epidemics on Networks: Reducing Disease Transmission Using Health Emergency Declarations and Peer Communication
Asma Azizi, Cesar Montalvo, Baltazar Espinoza +2
Understanding individual decisions in a world where communications and information move instantly via cell phones and the internet, contributes to the development and implementatio…
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…
Role of Mobility and Health Disparities on the Transmission Dynamics of Tuberculosis
Victor Moreno, Baltazar Espinoza, Kamal Barley +4
The transmission dynamics of Tuberculosis (TB) involve complex epidemiological and socio-economical interactions between individuals living in highly distinct regional conditions.…
Role of short-term dispersal on the dynamics of Zika virus
Victor Moreno, Baltazar Espinoza, Derdei Bichara +2
In November 2015, El Salvador reported their first case of Zika virus (Zv) leading to an explosive outbreak that in just two months had over 6000 suspected cases. Many communities…