MODELING AND DYNAMICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

MODELING AND DYNAMICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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FRONT MATTER Zhien Ma, Yicang Zhou and Jianhong Wu	i
Some Recent Results on Epidemic Dynamics Obtained by Our Group Zhien Ma	1
Modeling SARS, West Nile Virus, Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Canadian Team's Adventure Fred Brauer and Jianhong Wu	36
Diseases in Metapopulations Julien Arino	64
Modeling the Start of a Disease Outbreak Fred Brauer	123
Mathematical Techniques in the Evolutionary Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Troy Day	136
The Uses of Epidemiological Models in the Study of Disease Control Zhilan Feng, Dashun Xu and Haiyun Zhao	150
Assessing the Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome and Ensuring Optimal Mitigation via Mathematical Modeling John W. Glasser and Maureen Birmingham	167
Persistence of Vertically Transmitted Parasite Strains which Protect against More Virulent Horizontally Transmitted Strains Thanate Dhirasakdanon and Horst R. Thieme	187
Richards Model: A Simple Procedure for Real-time Prediction of Outbreak Severity Ying-Hen Hsieh	216
The Basic Reproduction Number and the Final Size of an Epidemic James Watmough	237
Epidemic Models with Reservoirs K. P. Hadeler	253
Global Stability in Multigroup Epidemic Models Hongbin Guo, Michael Y. Li and Zhisheng Shuai	268
Epidemic Models with Time Delays Wendi Wang	289
A Simulation Approach to Analysis of Antiviral Stockpile Sizes for Influenza Pandemic Shenghai Zhang	315
Modeling and Simulation Studies of West Nile Virus in Southern Ontario Canada Peter Buck, Rongsong Liu, Jiangping Shuai, Jianhong Wu and Huaiping Zhu	331
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