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The role of the ratio of vector and host densities in the evolution of transmission modes in vector-borne diseases. The example of sylvatic Trypanosoma cruzi
(2012)
Pathogens may use different routes of transmission to maximize their spread among
host populations. Theoretical and empirical work conducted on directly-transmitted diseases
suggest that horizontal (i.e., through host ...
A metapopulation model for sylvatic T. cruzi transmission with vector migration
(American Institute of Mathematical Science, 2014-06)
This study presents a metapopulation model for the sylvatic transmission
of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, across
multiple geographical regions and multiple overlapping host-vector ...
Influence of vectors' risk-spreading strategies and environmental stochasticity on the epidemiology and evolution of vector-borne diseaes: the example of Chagas' disease
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Insects are known to display strategies that spread the risk of encountering unfavorable conditions, thereby decreasing the extinction probability of genetic lineages in unpredictable environments. To what extent these ...
Agent-based mathematical modeling as a tool for estimating T. cruzi vector-host contact rates
(Elsevier, 2015-11)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, spread by triatomine vectors, affects over 100 mammalian
species throughout the Americas, including humans, in whom it causes Chagas’ ...
Modeling colony collapse disorder in honeybees as a contagion
(American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2014-12)
Honeybee pollination accounts annually for over $14 billion in United States agriculture
alone. Within the past decade there has been a mysterious mass die-off of honeybees, an
estimated 10 million beehives and sometimes ...
Graphical analysis of evolutionary trade-off in sylvatic Trypanosoma cruzi transmission modes
(Elsevier, 2014-07)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The notion of evolutionary trade-off (one attribute increasing at the expense of another) is central to the evolution of traits, well-studied especially in life-history ...
A cost-based comparison of quarantine strategies for new emerging diseases
(American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2010-07)
A classical epidemiological framework is used to provide a preliminary cost analysis of the effects of quarantine and isolation on the dynamics of infectious diseases for which no treatment or immediate diagnosis tools are ...
An epidemiological approach to the spread of political third parties
(American Insttitue of Mathematical Sciences, 2011-05)
Third political parties are influential in shaping American politics. In this work we study the spread of a third party ideology in a voting population where we assume that party members/activists are more influential in ...
Alternative transmission modes for Trypanosoma cruzi
(American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2010-07)
The parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas’ disease, is
typically transmitted through a cycle in which vectors become infected through
bloodmeals on infected hosts and then infect other hosts through defecation
at ...
Modeling nosocomial transmission of rotavirus in pediatric wards
(Springer-Verlag, 2011)
Nosocomial transmission of viral and bacterial infections is a major problem worldwide, affecting millions of patients (and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths) per year. Rotavirus
infections affect most children ...