Tuberculosis (TB) transmission is enhanced by a systematic and long exposure to an infectious individual. This process usually takes place within a cluster of individuals that includes the home, the workplace, and/or the school. Typical TB models ignore this cluster effect. In this work, we present new models for TB transmission that incorporate cluster effects on the transmission dynamics of TB. Our model considers the effect of casual infections, that is, those generated outside a cluster, versus those generated in a cluster. We find expressions for the Basic Reproductive Number as a function of cluster size. Our formula helps diferentiate the contributions of cluster vs. casual infections to the generation of secondary infectio...
The strengths and limitations of using homogeneous mixing and heterogeneous mixing epidemic models a...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) increases the risks of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease follo...
The risk of infection is generally believed to increase with gregariousness. Using a discrete time s...
Models that incorporate local and individual interactions are introduced in the context of the trans...
Models that incorporate local and individual interactions are introduced in the context of the trans...
Models that incorporate local and individual interactions are introduced in the context of the trans...
Several recent studies have used proportions of tuberculosis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprint...
For some diseases, the transmission of infection can cause spatial clustering of disease cases. This...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health threat in low TB incidence countries, through a combinatio...
Several recent studies have used proportions of tuberculo-sis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprin...
Several recent studies have used proportions of tuberculo-sis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprin...
SETTING Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2010-2014. OBJECTIVE To investigate predictors for clus...
Evidence of preferential mixing through selected social routes has been suggested for the transmissi...
The model herein aims to explore the dynamics of the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in an informal sett...
It is now well appreciated that population structure can have a major impact on disease dynamics, ou...
The strengths and limitations of using homogeneous mixing and heterogeneous mixing epidemic models a...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) increases the risks of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease follo...
The risk of infection is generally believed to increase with gregariousness. Using a discrete time s...
Models that incorporate local and individual interactions are introduced in the context of the trans...
Models that incorporate local and individual interactions are introduced in the context of the trans...
Models that incorporate local and individual interactions are introduced in the context of the trans...
Several recent studies have used proportions of tuberculosis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprint...
For some diseases, the transmission of infection can cause spatial clustering of disease cases. This...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health threat in low TB incidence countries, through a combinatio...
Several recent studies have used proportions of tuberculo-sis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprin...
Several recent studies have used proportions of tuberculo-sis cases sharing identical DNA fingerprin...
SETTING Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2010-2014. OBJECTIVE To investigate predictors for clus...
Evidence of preferential mixing through selected social routes has been suggested for the transmissi...
The model herein aims to explore the dynamics of the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in an informal sett...
It is now well appreciated that population structure can have a major impact on disease dynamics, ou...
The strengths and limitations of using homogeneous mixing and heterogeneous mixing epidemic models a...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) increases the risks of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease follo...
The risk of infection is generally believed to increase with gregariousness. Using a discrete time s...