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Toward a comprehensive system for constructing compartmental epidemic models
Darren Flynn-Primrose, Steven C. Walker, Michael Li +3
Compartmental models are valuable tools for investigating infectious diseases. Researchers building such models typically begin with a simple structure where compartments correspon…
Evaluating undercounts in epidemics: response to Maruotti et al. 2022
Michael Li, Jonathan Dushoff, David J. D. Earn +1
Maruotti et al. 2022 used a mark-recapture approach to estimate bounds on the true number of monkeypox infections in various countries. These approaches are fundamentally flawed; i…
Testing and Isolation Efficacy: Insights from a Simple Epidemic Model
Ali Gharouni, F. M. Abdelmalek, David J. D. Earn +2
Testing individuals for pathogens can affect the spread of epidemics. Understanding how individual-level processes of sampling and reporting test results can affect community- or p…
Patterns of Influenza Vaccination Coverage in the United States from 2009 to 2015
Alice P. Y. Chiu, Duo Yu, Jonathan Dushoff +1
Background: Globally, influenza is a major cause of morbidity, hospitalization and mortality. Influenza vaccination has shown substantial protective effectiveness in the United Sta…
Stochasticity and the limits to confidence when estimating R_0 of Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases
Bradford P Taylor, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S Weitz
Dynamic models - often deterministic in nature - were used to estimate the basic reproductive number, R_0, of the 2014-5 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic outbreak in West Africa.…
Post-death Transmission of Ebola: Challenges for Inference and Opportunities for Control
Joshua S. Weitz, Jonathan Dushoff
Multiple epidemiological models have been proposed to predict the spread of Ebola in West Africa. These models include consideration of counter-measures meant to slow and, eventual…
Robust estimation of microbial diversity in theory and in practice
Bart Haegeman, Jérôme Hamelin, John Moriarty +3
Quantifying diversity is of central importance for the study of structure, function and evolution of microbial communities. The estimation of microbial diversity has received renew…
Fluctuation Domains in Adaptive Evolution
Carl Boettiger, Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua S. Weitz
We derive an expression for the variation between parallel trajectories in phenotypic evolution, extending the well known result that predicts the mean evolutionary path in adaptiv…
On the accessibility of adaptive phenotypes of a bacterial metabolic network
Wilfred Ndifon, Joshua B. Plotkin, Jonathan Dushoff
The mechanisms by which adaptive phenotypes spread within an evolving population after their emergence are understood fairly well. Much less is known about the factors that influen…
Synonymous codon usage and selection on proteins
Joshua B. Plotkin, Jonathan Dushoff, Michael M. Desai +1
Selection pressures on proteins are usually measured by comparing homologous nucleotide sequences (Zuckerkandl and Pauling 1965). Recently we introduced a novel method, termed `vol…