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What impact will the achievement of the current World Health Organisation targets for anthelmintic treatment coverage in children have on the intensity of soil transmitted helminth infections? by Truscott, J E, Turner, H C, Anderson, R M

“…It is the aim of the World Health Organisation to eliminate soil-transmitted helminths (STH) as a health problem in children. To this end, the goal is to…”
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What is required in terms of mass drug administration to interrupt the transmission of schistosome parasites in regions of endemic infection? by Anderson, R M, Turner, H C, Farrell, S H, Yang, Jie, Truscott, J E

“…Schistosomiasis is endemic in 54 countries, but has one of the lowest coverages by mass drug administration of all helminth diseases. However, with increasing…”
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Response of a Deterministic Epidemiological System to a Stochastically Varying Environment by Truscott, J. E., Gilligan, C. A.

“…Fluctuations in the natural environment introduce variability into the biological systems that exist within them. In this paper, we develop a model for the…”
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Control of scrapie in the UK sheep population by TRUSCOTT, J. E., FERGUSON, N. M.

“…Scrapie is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of sheep, endemic in the UK for centuries. Interest in the disease has been heightened over…”
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Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Mathematical Models of Transmission, the Impact of Mass Drug Administration and Transmission Elimination Criteria by Truscott, J E, Turner, H C, Farrell, S H, Anderson, R M

“…Infections caused by soil-transmitted helminthias (STHs) affect over a billion people worldwide, causing anaemia and having a large social and economic impact…”
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Transmission dynamics and mechanisms of endemicity of scrapie in the UK sheep population by TRUSCOTT, J. E., FERGUSON, N. M.

“…Scrapie is a fatal neurological disease of sheep which is endemic in the United Kingdom. It is one of the family of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies…”
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Studies of the Transmission Dynamics, Mathematical Model Development and the Control of Schistosome Parasites by Mass Drug Administration in Human Communities by Anderson, R M, Turner, H C, Farrell, S H, Truscott, J E

“…Schistosomiasis is global in extent within developing countries, but more than 90% of the at-risk population lives in sub-Saharan Africa. In total, 261 million…”
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Ocean plankton populations as excitable media by TRUSCOTT, J. E, BRINDLEY, J

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The Effect of Cultivation on the Size, Shape, and Persistence of Disease Patches in Fields by Truscott, J. E., Gilligan, C. A.

“…Epidemics of soil-borne plant disease are characterized by patchiness because of restricted dispersal of inoculum. The density of inoculum within disease…”
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Equilibria, Stability and Excitability in a General Class of Plankton Population Models by Truscott, J. E., Brindley, J.

“…In a recent paper we proposed a simple ODE model for the behaviour of populations of phytoplankton and zooplankton which had a mathematical structure analogous…”
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A comparison of two mathematical models of the impact of mass drug administration on the transmission and control of schistosomiasis by Truscott, J.E, Gurarie, D, Alsallaq, R, Toor, J, Yoon, N, Farrell, S.H, Turner, H.C, Phillips, A.E, Aurelio, H.O, Ferro, J, King, C.H, Anderson, R.M

“…Highlights • This paper compares two mathematical models describing the transmission dynamics of schistosome infection and the impact of mass drug…”
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Soil-Borne Fungal Pathogens: Scaling-Up from Hyphal to Colony Behaviour and the Probability of Disease Transmission by Stacey, A. J., Truscott, J. E., Gilligan, C. A.

“…• The transmission of many fungal soil-borne plant pathogens is mediated by the growth of the fungal colony from an infectious to a susceptible host plant. •…”
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Viral infection as a regulator of oceanic phytoplankton populations by Rhodes, C.J., Truscott, J.E., Martin, A.P.

“…Viruses are the most abundant organism in seawater across all the world's oceans. Though they are believed to be capable of infecting all phytoplankton species…”
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Quantitative Analysis and Model Simplification of an Epidemic Model with Primary and Secondary Infection by Truscott, J.E., Gilligan, C.A., Webb, C.R.

“…Models of particular epidemiological systems can rapidly become complicated by biological detail which can obscure their essential features and behaviour. In…”
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Asymptotic analysis of an epidemic model with primary and secondary infection by Truscott, J. E., Webb, C. R., Gilligan, C. A.

“…For many biological systems, the behavior of interest is contained in the evolution of transients rather than in the stability of equilibria. These include…”
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The effect of diffusion on the autoignition of combustible fluids in insulation materials by TRUSCOTT, J. E., BRINDLEY, J., McINTOSH, A., GRIFFITHS, J.

“…The autoignition of flammable fluids in lagging materials is a major problem faced by the process industry. It is important to ascertain whether such a system…”
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Nurse practitioners and GPs: addressing the needs of older persons living in residential aged care by Truscott, Jane Elizabeth

“…The Australian population is becoming progressively older, placing significant pressure on both the supply of supported accommodation and health services…”
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A model for the invasion and spread of rhizomania in the United Kingdom: Implications for disease control strategies by STACEY, Adrian J, TRUSCOTT, James E, ASHER, Michael J. C, GILLIGAN, Christopher A

“…ABSTRACT Rhizomania disease of sugar beet represents a major economic threat to the sugar industry in the United Kingdom. Here we use the UK rhizomania…”
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Nonlinear phenomena in excitable media - Equilibria, stability and excitability in a general class of plankton population models by Truscott, J. E., Brindley, J.

“…In a recent paper we proposed a simple ODE model for the behaviour of populations of phytoplankton and zooplankton which had a mathematical structure analogous…”
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Equilibria, stability and excitability in a general class of plantkon population models: Nonlinear phenomena in excitable media by TRUSCOTT, J. E, BRINDLEY, J

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