A central goal in science is to learn from observations about the process that generated the observations. The principles of statistical inference describe a systematic approach for such learning, in which prior information, knowledge about the underlying mechanisms and the observed data can be combined. In practice, lack of mathematical tractability, huge amounts of missing information, and the sensitivity of the conclusions on the assumptions made represent genuine challenges in the theoretically sound statistical framework. Statistical studies on the dynamics of infectious diseases easily face all these problems at once. In the thesis we present case-studies in which the datasets on bacterial diversity, mostly on Streptococcus pneumoni...
Bacteria play an important role in many ecological systems. The molecular characterization of bacter...
Bacterial populations that colonize a host can play important roles in host health, including servin...
Pneumococcal infection is the most frequent cause of pneumonia, and one of the most prevalent diseas...
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a typical commensal bacterium causing severe diseases. Its prevalence is...
While the serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae are known to compete during colonization in human ho...
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) remain a problem worldwide, and can cause severe illness an...
The dissertation presents five problem-driven research articles, representing three research domains...
We propose a novel stochastic model for the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in a populati...
Programa de Doctorat en Biomedicina[eng] The bacterial colonisation of the respiratory tract is crit...
To prevent infectious diseases from spreading, it is often very valuable to know how, when, where an...
Bacterial populations that colonize a host can play important roles in host health, including servin...
Bacteria have been the causative agents of major infectious disease pandemics throughout human hist...
The primary objective of this dissertation is to utilise, adapt and extend current stochastic models...
Bacterial species exhibit diversity in their population structure varying from clonal to panmictic a...
Whole genome sequencing of pathogens in outbreaks of infectious disease provides the potential to re...
Bacteria play an important role in many ecological systems. The molecular characterization of bacter...
Bacterial populations that colonize a host can play important roles in host health, including servin...
Pneumococcal infection is the most frequent cause of pneumonia, and one of the most prevalent diseas...
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a typical commensal bacterium causing severe diseases. Its prevalence is...
While the serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae are known to compete during colonization in human ho...
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) remain a problem worldwide, and can cause severe illness an...
The dissertation presents five problem-driven research articles, representing three research domains...
We propose a novel stochastic model for the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in a populati...
Programa de Doctorat en Biomedicina[eng] The bacterial colonisation of the respiratory tract is crit...
To prevent infectious diseases from spreading, it is often very valuable to know how, when, where an...
Bacterial populations that colonize a host can play important roles in host health, including servin...
Bacteria have been the causative agents of major infectious disease pandemics throughout human hist...
The primary objective of this dissertation is to utilise, adapt and extend current stochastic models...
Bacterial species exhibit diversity in their population structure varying from clonal to panmictic a...
Whole genome sequencing of pathogens in outbreaks of infectious disease provides the potential to re...
Bacteria play an important role in many ecological systems. The molecular characterization of bacter...
Bacterial populations that colonize a host can play important roles in host health, including servin...
Pneumococcal infection is the most frequent cause of pneumonia, and one of the most prevalent diseas...