Infectious Diseases and Our Planet

Abstract

This book features recent research in mathematical modeling of indirectly and directly transmitted infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants. It compiles nine not previously published studies that illustrate the dynamic spread of infectious diseases, offering a broad range of models to enrich understanding. It demonstrates the capability of mathematical modeling to capture disease spread and interaction dynamics as well as the complicating factors of various evolutionary processes. In addition, it presents applications to real-world disease control by commenting on key parameters and dominant pathways related to transmission. While aimed at early-graduate level students, the book can also provide insights to established researchers in that it presents a survey of current topics and methodologies in a constantly evolving field. Infectious Diseases and Our Planet / Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem and Gideon A. Ngwa -- The Effect of Demographic Variability and Periodic Fluctuations on Disease Outbreaks in a Vector-Host Epidemic Model / Kaniz Fatema Nipa and Linda J.S. Allen -- Evidence for Multiple Transmission Routes for Pseudorabies in Wild Hogs / Benjamin Levy, Suzanne Lenhart, Charles Collins, and William Stiver -- Application of Mathematical Epidemiology to Crop Vector-Borne Diseases: The Cassava Mosaic Virus Disease Case / Michael Chapwanya and Yves Dumont -- A Multistage Mosquito-Centred Mathematical Model for Malaria Dynamics that Captures Mosquito Gonotrophic Cycle Contributions to Its Population Abundance and Malaria Transmission / Miranda I. Teboh-Ewungkem, Gideon A. Ngwa, and Mary Y. Fomboh-Nforba -- Charles Darwin Meets Ronald Ross: A Population-Genetic Framework for the Evolutionary Dynamics of Malaria / Kristan A. Schneider -- Identifying the Dominant Transmission Pathway in a Multi-stage Infection Model of the Emerging Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium Salamandrivoranson the Eastern Newt / Md Rafiul Islam, Matthew J. Gray, and Angela Peace -- Reducing the Global HIV Burden: The Importance of Uneven Exposure to the Results of HIV Prevention Trials / Mia Moore, Marie-Claude Boily, Deborah J. Donnell, and Dobromir Dimitrov -- Dynamic Regulation of T Cell Activation by Coupled Feedforward Loops / Gershom Buri, Girma Mesfin Zelleke, and Wilfred Ndifon -- Modeling Ebola Transmission Dynamics with Media Effects on Disease and Isolation Rates / Erick Oduniyi, Brad Gibbons, Myunghyun Oh, and Folashade B. Agusto.