Abstract Human mobility, contact patterns, and their interplay are key aspects of our social behavior that shape the spread infectious diseases across different regions. In light new evidence data sets about these two elements, epidemic models should be refined to incorporate both heterogeneity human contacts complexity mobility patterns. Here, we propose a theoretical framework allows accommod...

T his literature review explores the role that ventilation, assessed by air changes per hour (ACH), plays in infection transmission and disease control. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Position Document on Airborne Infectious Diseases (2009) notes the dilution effect that ACH has on infectious disease transmission. The Wells-Riley equation...

Besides mimicking bio-chemical and multi-scale communication mechanisms, molecular forms a theoretical framework for virus infection processes. Towards this goal, aerosol droplet transmission has recently been modeled as multiuser scenario. In letter, the “infection performance” is evaluated by means of mutual information analysis, an even simpler probabilistic performance measure which closely...

During the past 3 decades, our understanding of both the biology and epidemiology of infectious diseases has vastly improved because of methodological and technological developments. However, researchers have yet to take full advantage of the tools available to them, particularly in health care settings. Most studies of nosocomial influenza and other infections focus primarily on patients, but ...