Modelling parasite transmission and control
By: edited by Edwin Michael, Robert C. Spear.
Contributors: Michael, Edwin.; Spear, Robert C., 1939-
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- 673; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 673.
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media/Landes Bioscience; Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781441960634
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- Mathematical models; Parasites -- pathogenicity; Disease Vectors; Models, Theoretical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Progress in modelling malaria transmission; title: Vector transmission heterogeneity and the population dynamics and control of lymphatic filariasis; title: Modelling multi-species parasite transmission; title: Metapopulation models in tick-borne disease transmission modelling; title: Modelling stochastic transmission processes in helminth infections; title: Modelling environmentally mediated infectious diseases of humans  transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis in China; title: Parameter estimation and site specific calibration of disease transmission models; title: Modelling malaria population structure and its implications for control; title: Mathematical modelling of the epidemiology of tuberculosis; title: Modelling trachoma for control programmes; title: Disease transmission models for public health decision making : designing intervention strategies for Schistosoma japonicum; title: Modelling climate change and malaria transmission; title: Modelling the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi : the need for an integrated genetic epidemiological and population genomics approach.