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Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks by House, Thomas

“…Ebola is a deadly virus that causes frequent disease outbreaks in the human population. In this study, we analyse its rate of new introductions, case fatality…”
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Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions by Pellis, Lorenzo, Scarabel, Francesca, Stage, Helena B, Overton, Christopher E, Chappell, Lauren H K, Fearon, Elizabeth, Bennett, Emma, Lythgoe, Katrina A, House, Thomas A, Hall, Ian

“…Early assessments of the growth rate of COVID-19 were subject to significant uncertainty, as expected with limited data and difficulties in case ascertainment,…”
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Possible future waves of SARS-CoV-2 infection generated by variants of concern with a range of characteristics by Dyson, Louise, Hill, Edward M., Moore, Sam, Curran-Sebastian, Jacob, Tildesley, Michael J., Lythgoe, Katrina A., House, Thomas, Pellis, Lorenzo, Keeling, Matt J.

“…Viral reproduction of SARS-CoV-2 provides opportunities for the acquisition of advantageous mutations, altering viral transmissibility, disease severity,…”
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Impact of vaccination on new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United Kingdom by Pritchard, Emma, Matthews, Philippa C., Stoesser, Nicole, Eyre, David W., Gethings, Owen, Vihta, Karina-Doris, Jones, Joel, House, Thomas, VanSteenHouse, Harper, Bell, Iain, Bell, John I., Newton, John N., Farrar, Jeremy, Diamond, Ian, Rourke, Emma, Studley, Ruth, Crook, Derrick, Peto, Tim E. A., Walker, A. Sarah, Pouwels, Koen B.

“…The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in preventing new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in the general community is…”
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Vaccine Induced Herd Immunity for Control of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease in a Low-Income Country Setting by Kinyanjui, Timothy M, House, Thomas A, Kiti, Moses C, Cane, Patricia A, Nokes, David J, Medley, Graham F

“…Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is globally ubiquitous, and infection during the first six months of life is a major risk for severe disease and hospital…”
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Evidence for complex contagion models of social contagion from observational data by Sprague, Daniel A, House, Thomas

“…Social influence can lead to behavioural 'fads' that are briefly popular and quickly die out. Various models have been proposed for these phenomena, but…”
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Insights from unifying modern approximations to infections on networks by House, Thomas, Keeling, Matt J.

“…Networks are increasingly central to modern science owing to their ability to conceptualize multiple interacting components of a complex system. As a specific…”
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EpiBeds: Data informed modelling of the COVID-19 hospital burden in England by Overton, Christopher E, Pellis, Lorenzo, Stage, Helena B, Scarabel, Francesca, Burton, Joshua, Fraser, Christophe, Hall, Ian, House, Thomas A, Jewell, Chris, Nurtay, Anel, Pagani, Filippo, Lythgoe, Katrina A

“…The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic put considerable strain on healthcare systems worldwide. In order to predict the effect of the local epidemic on…”
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Hospital length of stay for COVID-19 patients: Data-driven methods for forward planning by Vekaria, Bindu, Overton, Christopher, WiÅniowski, Arkadiusz, Ahmad, Shazaad, Aparicio-Castro, Andrea, Curran-Sebastian, Jacob, Eddleston, Jane, Hanley, Neil A, House, Thomas, Kim, Jihye, Olsen, Wendy, Pampaka, Maria, Pellis, Lorenzo, Ruiz, Diego Perez, Schofield, John, Shryane, Nick, Elliot, Mark J

“…Abstract Background Predicting hospital length of stay (LoS) for patients with COVID-19 infection is essential to ensure that adequate bed capacity can be…”
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Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health by Heesterbeek, Hans, Anderson, Roy M., Andreasen, Viggo, Bansal, Shweta, De Angelis, Daniela, Dye, Chris, Eames, Ken T. D., Edmunds, W. John, Frost, Simon D. W., Funk, Sebastian, Hollingsworth, T. Deirdre, House, Thomas, Isham, Valerie, Klepac, Petra, Lessler, Justin, Lloyd-Smith, James O., Metcalf, C. Jessica E., Mollison, Denis, Pellis, Lorenzo, Pulliam, Juliet R. C., Roberts, Mick G., Viboud, Cecile

“…Despite some notable successes in the control of infectious diseases, transmissible pathogens still pose an enormous threat to human and animal health. The…”
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Social encounter networks: characterizing Great Britain by Danon, Leon, Read, Jonathan M., House, Thomas A., Vernon, Matthew C., Keeling, Matt J.

“…A major goal of infectious disease epidemiology is to understand and predict the spread of infections within human populations, with the intention of better…”
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Correction: Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks by House, Thomas

“…Epidemiological dynamics of Ebola outbreaks. eLife 3:e03908. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03908. Published 12 September 2014 In the published article text, a term was…”
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Eight challenges for network epidemic models by Pellis, Lorenzo, Ball, Frank, Bansal, Shweta, Eames, Ken, House, Thomas, Isham, Valerie, Trapman, Pieter

“…Highlights • Modelling transmission through networks is challenging. • We overview most of the outstanding open problems. • We identify topics ranging from…”
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The role of vaccination and public awareness in forecasts of Mpox incidence in the United Kingdom by Brand, Samuel P. C., Cavallaro, Massimo, Cumming, Fergus, Turner, Charlie, Florence, Isaac, Blomquist, Paula, Hilton, Joe, Guzman-Rincon, Laura M., House, Thomas, Nokes, D. James, Keeling, Matt J.

“…Beginning in May 2022, Mpox virus spread rapidly in high-income countries through close human-to-human contact primarily amongst communities of gay, bisexual…”
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Lie Algebra Solution of Population Models Based on Time-Inhomogeneous Markov Chains by House, Thomas

“…Many natural populations are well modelled through time-inhomogeneous stochastic processes. Such processes have been analysed in the physical sciences using a…”
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Individual identity and movement networks for disease metapopulations by Keeling, Matt J, Danon, Leon, Vernon, Matthew C, House, Thomas A

“…The theory of networks has had a huge impact in both the physical and life sciences, shaping our understanding of the interaction between multiple elements in…”
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Social encounter networks: collective properties and disease transmission by Danon, Leon, House, Thomas A., Read, Jonathan M., Keeling, Matt J.

“…A fundamental challenge of modern infectious disease epidemiology is to quantify the networks of social and physical contacts through which transmission can…”
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Ct threshold values, a proxy for viral load in community SARS-CoV-2 cases, demonstrate wide variation across populations and over time by Walker, A Sarah, Pritchard, Emma, House, Thomas, Robotham, Julie V, Birrell, Paul J, Bell, Iain, Bell, John I, Newton, John N, Farrar, Jeremy, Diamond, Ian, Studley, Ruth, Hay, Jodie, Vihta, Karina-Doris, Peto, Timothy Ea, Stoesser, Nicole, Matthews, Philippa C, Eyre, David W, Pouwels, Koen B

“…Information on SARS-CoV-2 in representative community surveillance is limited, particularly cycle threshold (Ct) values (a proxy for viral load). We included…”
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Exact and approximate moment closures for non-Markovian network epidemics by Pellis, Lorenzo, House, Thomas, Keeling, Matt J.

“…Moment-closure techniques are commonly used to generate low-dimensional deterministic models to approximate the average dynamics of stochastic systems on…”
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Scabies in residential care homes: Modelling, inference and interventions for well-connected population sub-units by Kinyanjui, Timothy, Middleton, Jo, Güttel, Stefan, Cassell, Jackie, Ross, Joshua, House, Thomas

“…In the context of an ageing population, understanding the transmission of infectious diseases such as scabies through well-connected sub-units of the…”
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