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Mathematical Studies on Human Disease Dynamics: Emerging Paradigms and Challenges

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Abba B. Gumel, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ronald E. Mickens and Dominic P. Clemence, Editors

Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year: 2006; Volume 410
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3775-7 (print); 978-0-8218-8073-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/410
MathSciNet review: 2277877

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Articles

• Linda J. S. Allen, Edward J. Allen and Colleen B. Jonsson – The impact of environmental variation on hantavirus infection in rodents [MR 2277878]
• Juan Pablo Aparicio and Julio C. Hernández – Preventive treatment of tuberculosis through contact tracing [MR 2277879]
• Christopher Bowman and Abba Gumel – Optimal vaccination strategies for an influenza-like illness in a heterogeneous population [MR 2277880]
• Gerardo Chowell, Ariel Cintrón-Arias, Sara Del Valle, Fabio Sánchez, Baojun Song, James M. Hyman, Herbert W. Hethcote and Carlos Castillo-Chávez – Mathematical applications associated with the deliberate release of infectious agents [MR 2277881]
• G. Chowell, A. L. Rivas, N. W. Hengartner, J. M. Hyman and C. Castillo-Chavez – Critical response to post-outbreak vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease [MR 2277882]
• L. G. de Pillis and A. E. Radunskaya – Some promising approaches to tumor-immune modeling [MR 2277883]
• Elamin H. Elbasha – Impact of prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus infection [MR 2277884]
• Thomas J. Emerson – Population dynamics of developmental deficits due to an environmental neurotoxicant [MR 2277885]
• Weiqing Gu and Helen Moore – Optimal therapy regimens for treatment-resistant mutations of HIV [MR 2277886]
• T. L. Jackson, R. Ashkenazi, S. Heusel and H. V. Jain – Cancer modeling: a perspective on what’s new and what’s next [MR 2277887]
• Yi Jiang – Understanding a killer: a predictive model for tumor development [MR 2277888]
• Hem Raj Joshi, Suzanne Lenhart, Michael Y. Li and Liancheng Wang – Optimal control methods applied to disease models [MR 2277889]
• Alun L. Lloyd, Steve Valeika and Ariel Cintrón-Arias – Infection dynamics on small-world networks [MR 2277890]
• James O. Lloyd-Smith, Sebastian J. Schreiber and Wayne M. Getz – Moving beyond averages: individual-level variation in disease transmission [MR 2277891]
• E. M. Lungu, M. Kgosimore and F. Nyabadza – Models for the spread of HIV/AIDS: trends in southern Africa [MR 2277892]
• Ronald E. Mickens – Application of NSFD methods to the numerical integration of bio-sciences differential equation models [MR 2277893]
• Karen R. Ríos-Soto, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Michael G. Neubert, Edriss S. Titi and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu – Epidemic spread in populations at demographic equilibrium [MR 2277894]
• F. Sánchez, M. Engman, L. Harrington and C. Castillo-Chávez – Models for dengue transmission and control [MR 2277895]
• E. Shim, H. T. Banks and C. Castillo-Chavez – Seasonality of rotavirus infection with its vaccination [MR 2277896]
• C. J. Struchiner, P. M. Luz, C. T. Codeço, F. C. Coelho and E. Massad – Current research issues in mosquito-borne diseases modeling [MR 2277897]
• S. Tennenbaum, T. G. Kassem, S. Roudenko and C. Castillo-Chavez – The role of transactional sex in spreading HIV in Nigeria [MR 2277898]