Branching process models for surveillance of infectious diseases controlled by mass vaccination

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Diseases Controlled Primarily by Vaccination

Prevention of infectious diseases by public vaccination and individual protection

In the face of serious infectious diseases, governments endeavour to implement containment measures such as public vaccination at a macroscopic level. Meanwhile, individuals tend to protect themselves by avoiding contacts with infections at a microscopic level. However, a comprehensive understanding of how such combined strategy influences epidemic dynamics is still lacking. We study a suscepti...

Branching Process Models

We consider an exponentially growing cell populations modeled as a multi-type branching process in which type i cells are those with i ≥ 0 mutations and we let Zi(t) be the number of type i cells at time t. Type i cells give birth at rate ai and die at rate bi, where the growth rate λi = ai − bi > 0. Thinking of cancer we will usually restrict our attention to the case in which i → λi is increa...

Epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases in France.

Epidemiological surveillance, namely the continuous monitoring of diseases and health determinants in a population, has developed over the past fifteen years, in the sphere of human health as well as in animal health. All epidemiological surveillance networks include the following four stages: data collection, data transmission, data processing and dissemination of information. However, despite...