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Spatial heterogeneity and the persistence of infectious diseases by Hagenaars, T.J., Donnelly, C.A., Ferguson, N.M.

“…The endemic persistence of infectious diseases can often not be understood without taking into account the relevant heterogeneities of host mixing. Here, we…”
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Approximate disease dynamics in household-structured populations by Dodd, P.J, Ferguson, N.M

“…We argue that the large-dimensional dynamical systems which frequently occur in biological models can sometimes be effectively reduced to much smaller ones. We…”
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S83 The role of mathematical modelling in pandemic preparedness by Cauchemez, S, Ferguson, N.M

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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy and its impact on clinical outcome in HIV-infected patients by Ferguson, N.M, Donnelly, C.A, Hooper, J, Ghani, A.C, Fraser, C, Bartley, L.M, Rode, R.A, Vernazza, P, Lapins, D, Mayer, S.L, Anderson, R.M

“…T-cell counts better than measures based on adherence data alone…”
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Cross-serotype interactions and disease outcome prediction of dengue infections in Vietnam by Aguas, R., Dorigatti, I., Coudeville, L., Luxemburger, C., Ferguson, N. M.

“…Dengue pathogenesis is extremely complex. Dengue infections are thought to induce life-long immunity from homologous challenges as well as a multi-factorial…”
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Feed-borne transmission and case clustering of BSE by Hagenaars, T.J, Ferguson, N.M, Donnelly, C.A, Ghani, A.C, Anderson, R.M

“…An unresolved issue in the epidemiology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the UK is what precisely determines the degree to which cases of disease…”
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BSE in Northern Ireland: epidemiological patterns past, present and future by Ferguson, N.M, Ghani, A.C, Donnelly, C.A, Denny, G.O, Anderson, R.M

“…By 30 January 1998, there had been 170 259 confirmed cases of BSE in Great Britain (GB), 1766 confirmed cases in Northern Ireland (NI) (2 January 1998), and…”
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A new approach to characterising infectious disease transmission dynamics from sentinel surveillance: Application to the Italian 2009–2010 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic by Dorigatti, Ilaria, Cauchemez, Simon, Pugliese, Andrea, Ferguson, Neil Morris

“…Highlights ► We propose a general statistical framework to fit syndromic and virological data simultaneously. ► Our approach explicitly takes into account the…”
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Public health risk from the avian H5N1 influenza epidemic by Ferguson, N.M, Fraser, C, Donnelly, C.A, Ghani, A.C, Anderson, R.M

“…The ongoing H5N1 influenza epidemic in Asian bird populations poses risks to public as well as animal health, due to the potential for cross-species…”
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Discrepancy between minimal inhibitory concentration to enrofloxacin and mutations present in the quinolone-resistance determining regions of Mycoplasma gallisepticum field strains by Lysnyansky, I., Gerchman, I., Levisohn, S., Mikula, I., Feberwee, A., Ferguson, N.M., Noormohammadi, A.H., Spergser, J., Windsor, H.M.

“…Molecular characterization of the quinolone-resistance determining regions (QRDRs) of DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV in 93 Mycoplasma gallisepticum field…”
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Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle. [Erratum: Mar 20, 1997, v. 386 (6622), p. 302.] by Anderson, R.M, Donnelly, C.A, Ferguson, N.M, Woolhouse, M.E.J, Watt, C.J, Udy, H.J, MaWhinney, S, Dunstan, S.P, Southwood, T.R.E, Wilesmith, J.W

“…A comprehensive analysis of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in cattle in Great Britain assesses past, present and future patterns in the…”
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Spatial heternogeneity and the persistence of infectious diseases by Hagenaars, T.H.J, Donelly, C.A, Ferguson, N.M

“…The endemic persistence of infectious diseases can often not be understood without taking into account the relevant heterogeneities of host mixing. Here, we…”
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Characterizing the symmetric equilibrium of multi-strain host-pathogen systems in the presence of cross immunity by Abu-Raddad, L J, Ferguson, N M

“…We investigate the population dynamics of host-pathogen systems in which the pathogen has a potentially arbitrary number of antigenically distinct strains…”
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Epidemiological determinants of the pattern and magnitude of the vCJD epidemic in Great Britain by Ghani, A.C, Ferguson, N.M, Donnelly, C.A, Hagenaars, T.J, Anderson, R.M

“…Understanding the epidemiology and aetiology of new–variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob (vCJD) disease in humans has become increasingly important given the scientific…”
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Epidemiological analysis of data for scrapie in Great Britain by HAGENAARS, T. J., DONNELLY, C. A., FERGUSON, N. M.

“…In recent years, the control or eradication of scrapie and any other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) possibly circulating in the sheep…”
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Unveiling the burden of pertussis by Boven, Michiel van, Ferguson, Neil M., Rie, Annelies van

“…Increasing incidence has led to pertussis re-emerging as a public health problem in developed countries over the past decade. Obtaining a better understanding…”
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Estimation of the basic reproduction number of BSE: the intensity of transmission in British cattle by Ferguson, N.M, Donnelly, C.A, Woolhouse, M.E.J, Anderson, R.M

“…throughout the time–course of the BSE epidemic. We show that the 1988 meat and bonemeal ban was effective in rapidly reducing…”
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Safety and Efficacy of the Avirulent Mycoplasma gallisepticum Strain K5054 as a Live Vaccine in Poultry by Ferguson, N. M, Leiting, V. A, Kleven, S. H

“…A Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) isolate from an atypically mild outbreak in turkey breeders was found to be similar to house finch isolates by DNA analyses. A…”
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Dynamics of a scrapie outbreak in a flock of Romanov sheep – estimation of transmission parameters by HAGENAARS, T. J., DONNELLY, C. A., FERGUSON, N. M., ANDERSON, R. M.

“…Knowledge of epidemiological mechanisms and parameters underlying scrapie transmission in sheep flocks remains very limited at present. Here we introduce a…”
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The transmission dynamics of BSE and vCJD by Ghani, Azra C, Donnelly, Christl A, Ferguson, Neil M, Anderson, Roy M

“…The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic in cattle has had a huge economic impact on the agricultural industries across Europe. Furthermore,…”
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