Modeling Projects

Epidemics

- Modeling superspreaders in epidemics

The first paper is a perspective on superspreaders, published in Nature. The other articles refer to specific models.

• Dimensions of superspreading, by A.P. Galvani and R.M. May, Nature 438, 293-295 (2005).
• Effects of superspreaders in spread of epidemic, by R. Fujie and T. Odagaki,
  Physica A 374, 843-852 (2007).
• Super-spreaders and the rate of transmission of the SARS virus, by M. Small, C.K. Tse, and D.M. Walker,
  Physica D 215, 146-158 (2006).

- Modeling immunization

• Immunization dynamics on a two-layer network model, by H.-H. Jo, S.K. Baek, and H.-T. Moon,
  Physica A 361, 534-542 (2006).

- Modeling the effect of pathogen mutation on the spread of epidemics

• Epidemics with pathogen mutation on small-world networks, by Z.-G. Shao, Z.-J. Tan, X.-W. Zou, and Z.-Z. Jin,
  Physica A 363, 561-566 (2006).

- Controlling the spread of epidemics

• Simple model for tuberculosis in cattle and badgers, by D. R. Cox, C.A. Donnelly, F.J. Bourne, G. Gettinby, J.P. McInerney, W.I. Morrison, and R. Woodroffe,
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102, 17588-17593 (2005).

- Age- and sex-structured models

• Human infection patterns and heterogeneous exposure in river blindness, by J. A. N. Filipe, M. Boussinesq, A. Renz, R.C. Collins, S. Vivas-Martinez, M.-E. Grillet, M.P. Little, and M.-G. Basáñez,
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102, 15265-15270 (2005).