Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases Volume 2: Non Vector-Borne Diseases /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sree Hari Rao, V. (Editor), Durvasula, Ravi. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Infectious diseases.; Bioinformatics.; Systems biology.; Life Sciences.; Systems Biology.; Infectious Diseases.
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Though great advances in public health are witnessed world over in recent years, infectious diseases, besides insect vector-borne infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Control of the epidemics caused by the non-vector borne diseases such as tuberculosis, avian influe...

Table of Contents:

• Control of Infectious Diseases: Dynamics and Informatics
• Evaluating the evolutionary dynamics of viral populations
• Percolation Methods for Seir Epidemics on Graphs
• Dynamics of tuberculosis in a developing country: Nigeria as a case study
• Component Signaling Systems of M. tuberculosis: Regulators of Pathogenicity and More
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution, host-pathogen interactions and implications for tuberculosis control
• Trends in HIV transmission according to differences in numbers of sexual partnerships among men who have sex with men in China
• The Impact of Cryptococcus gattii with a Focus on the Outbreak in North America
• Modeling the Spread and Outbreak Dynamics of Avian Influenza (H5N1) Virus and its Possible Control
• Index.