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Mathematical epidemiology: Past, present, and future by Brauer, Fred

“…We give a brief outline of some of the important aspects of the development of mathematical epidemiology…”
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Early estimates of epidemic final sizes by Brauer, Fred

“…Early in a disease outbreak, it is important to be able to estimate the final size of the epidemic in order to assess needs for treatment and to be able to…”
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A new epidemic model with indirect transmission by Brauer, Fred

“…We consider an epidemic model in which all disease transmission is through shedding of virus by infectives and acquisition by susceptibles, rather than by…”
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A final size relation for epidemic models of vector-transmitted diseases by Brauer, Fred

“…We formulate and analyze an age of infection model for epidemics of diseases transmitted by a vector, including the possibility of direct transmission as well…”
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Backward bifurcations in simple vaccination models by Brauer, Fred

“…We describe and analyze by elementary means some simple models for disease transmission with vaccination. In particular, we give conditions for the existence…”
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A simple model for behaviour change in epidemics by Brauer, Fred

“…People change their behaviour during an epidemic. Infectious members of a population may reduce the number of contacts they make with other people because of…”
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Dynamics of an age-of-infection cholera model by Brauer, Fred, Shuai, Zhisheng, van den Driessche, P

“…A new model for the dynamics of cholera is formulated that incorporates both the infection age of infectious individuals and biological age of pathogen in the…”
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Some models for epidemics of vector-transmitted diseases by Brauer, Fred, Castillo-Chavez, Carlos, Mubayi, Anuj, Towers, Sherry

“…Vector-transmitted diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunya have been spreading rapidly in many parts of the world. The Zika virus has been known since…”
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Modelling and simulating Chikungunya spread with an unstructured triangular cellular automata by Ortigoza, Gerardo, Brauer, Fred, Neri, Iris

“…In this work we propose a mathematical model to simulate Chikungunya spread; the spread model is implemented in a C++ cellular automata code defined on…”
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A novel approach to modelling the spatial spread of airborne diseases: an epidemic model with indirect transmission by David, Jummy F., Iyaniwura, Sarafa A., Ward, Michael J., Brauer, Fred

“…We formulated and analyzed a class of coupled partial and ordinary differential equation (PDE-ODE) model to study the spread of airborne diseases. Our model…”
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Simple models for containment of a pandemic by Arino, Julien, Brauer, Fred, van den Driessche, P, Watmough, James, Wu, Jianhong

“…We formulate compartmental models to describe outbreaks of influenza and attempt to manage a disease outbreak by vaccination or antiviral treatment. The models…”
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A co-interaction model of HIV and syphilis infection among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men by David, Jummy Funke, Lima, Viviane Dias, Zhu, Jielin, Brauer, Fred

“…We developed a mathematical model to study the co-interaction of HIV and syphilis infection among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM). We…”
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General Compartmental Epidemic Models by Brauer, Fred

“…The age of infection approach introduced by Kermack and Mckendrick in 1927 gives a unified way of describing and analyzing a variety of epidemic models,…”
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Drug resistance in an age-of-infection model by Brauer, Fred, Xiao, Yanyu, Moghadas, Seyed M.

“…In the case of a disease spreading over a time-scale comparable to the average lifetime in a host population, when the infectiousness of individuals depends on…”
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The Final Size of a Serious Epidemic by Brauer, Fred

“…In an epidemic of a serious disease, there is likely to be behavioral response that decreases the epidemic size considerably, and taking this into account may…”
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Vaccination against 2009 pandemic H1N1 in a population dynamical model of Vancouver, Canada: timing is everything by Conway, Jessica M, Tuite, Ashleigh R, Fisman, David N, Hupert, Nathaniel, Meza, Rafael, Davoudi, Bahman, English, Krista, van den Driessche, P, Brauer, Fred, Ma, Junling, Meyers, Lauren Ancel, Smieja, Marek, Greer, Amy, Skowronski, Danuta M, Buckeridge, David L, Kwong, Jeffrey C, Wu, Jianhong, Moghadas, Seyed M, Coombs, Daniel, Brunham, Robert C, Pourbohloul, Babak

“…Much remains unknown about the effect of timing and prioritization of vaccination against pandemic (pH1N1) 2009 virus on health outcomes. We adapted a…”
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A singular perturbation approach to epidemics of vector-transmitted diseases by Brauer, Fred

“…In vector-borne epidemic models there is often a substantial difference between the vector and host time scales. This makes it possible to use the…”
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Some Simple Nosocomial Disease Transmission Models by Brauer, Fred

“…The SARS epidemic of 2002–2003 drew attention to nosocomial disease transmission as many of the disease cases were transmitted through hospital staff and…”
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Epidemic Models with Heterogeneous Mixing and Treatment by Brauer, Fred

“…We consider a two-group epidemic model with treatment and establish a final size relation that gives the extent of the epidemic. This relation can be…”
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On parameter estimation in compartmental epidemic models: Comment on “Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: A review” by Gerardo Chowell et al by Brauer, Fred

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