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Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia by Fraser, Christophe, Ferguson, Neil M, Iamsirithaworn, Sopon, Riley, Steven, Cauchemez, Simon, Burke, Donald S, Cummings, Derek A.T, Meeyai, Aronrag

“…Highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A viruses are now endemic in avian populations in Southeast Asia, and human cases continue to accumulate. Although currently…”
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Understanding dengue virus evolution to support epidemic surveillance and counter-measure development by Pollett, S., Melendrez, M.C., Maljkovic Berry, I., Duchêne, S., Salje, H., Cummings, D.A.T., Jarman, R.G.

“…Dengue virus (DENV) causes a profound burden of morbidity and mortality, and its global burden is rising due to the co-circulation of four divergent DENV…”
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Close encounters of the infectious kind: methods to measure social mixing behaviour by READ, J. M, EDMUNDS, W. J, RILEY, S, LESSLER, J, CUMMINGS, D. A. T

“…A central tenet of close-contact or respiratory infection epidemiology is that infection patterns within human populations are related to underlying patterns…”
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Containing Pandemic Influenza at the Source by Longini, Ira M, Nizam, Azhar, Xu, Shufu, Ungchusak, Kumnuan, Hanshaoworakul, Wanna, Cummings, Derek A. T, Halloran, M. Elizabeth

“…Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (subtype H5N1) is threatening to cause a human pandemic of potentially devastating proportions. We used a stochastic…”
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Big city, small world: density, contact rates, and transmission of dengue across Pakistan by Kraemer, M. U. G., Perkins, T. A., Cummings, D. A. T., Zakar, R., Hay, S. I., Smith, D. L., Reiner, R. C.

“…Macroscopic descriptions of populations commonly assume that encounters between individuals are well mixed; i.e. each individual has an equal chance of coming…”
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Survival at older ages: are greater influenza antibody titers protective? by Metcalf, Cje, Klein, S L, Read, J M, Riley, S, Cummings, Dat, Guan, Yi, Kwok, K O, Huachen, Z, Jiang, C Q, Lam, Tai Hing, Lessler, J

“…Antibodies are a core element of the immune system's defense against infectious diseases. We hypothesize that antibody titres might therefore be an important…”
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Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand by Burke, Donald S, Cummings, Derek A.T, Irizarry, Rafael A, Huang, Norden E, Endy, Timothy P, Nisalak, Ananda, Ungchusak, Kumnuan

“…Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne virus that infects 50-100 million people each year. Of these infections, 200,000-500,000 occur as the severe, life-threatening…”
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Maintaining high rates of measles immunization in Africa by LESSLER, J., MOSS, W. J., LOWTHER, S. A., CUMMINGS, D. A. T.

“…Supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) are important in achieving high levels of population immunity to measles virus. Using data from a 2006 survey of…”
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Instabilities in multiserotype disease models with antibody-dependent enhancement by Billings, Lora, Schwartz, Ira B., Shaw, Leah B., McCrary, Marie, Burke, Donald S., Cummings, Derek A.T.

“…This paper investigates the complex dynamics induced by antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in multiserotype disease models. ADE is the increase in viral…”
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Using age-stratified incidence data to examine the transmission consequences of pertussis vaccination by Blackwood, J.C, Cummings, D.A.T, Iamsirithaworn, S, Rohani, P

“…Highlights • Analyzed age-structured case notification data of pertussis in Thailand • Observed substantial decreases in incidence in all age classes following…”
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Improved measles surveillance in Cameroon reveals two major dynamic patterns of incidence by Cummings, Derek A.T., Moss, William J., Long, Kanya, Wiysonge, Charles S., Muluh, Ticha Johnson, Kollo, Basile, Nomo, Emmanuel, Wolfe, Nathan D., Burke, Donald S.

“…To characterize the province-specific incidence patterns of measles in Cameroon and determine if an increase in measles incidence during the period January…”
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Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases by Schwartz, Ira B, Shaw, Leah B, Cummings, Derek A T, Billings, Lora, McCrary, Marie, Burke, Donald S

“…Multistrain diseases are diseases that consist of several strains, or serotypes. The serotypes may interact by antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), in which…”
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