Mathematical Models for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Essential Tools for Control and Elimination, Part A

Herausgegeben:Anderson, Roy M; Basanez, Maria Gloria

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1963, Advances in Parasitology contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.

Advances in Parasitology includes medical studies of parasites of major influence, such as Plasmodium falciparum and trypanosomes. The series also contains reviews of more traditional areas, such as zoology, taxonomy, and life history, which shape current thinking and applications.

The 2013 impact factor is 4.36.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Parasitology Volume 87
• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: S0065-308X(15)X0002-9
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 25mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780128032565
• Artikelnr.: 46963667

Autorenporträt

Professor Sir Roy Anderson is the Director of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research and works at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London.

Professor Maria-Gloria Basanez works at the Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health at Imperial College London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Allee Effect and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Mathematical Modelling Study
   Manoj Gambhir, Brajendra K. Singh and Edwin Michael
2. Mathematical Modelling of Leprosy and its Control
   David J. Blok, Sake J. de Vlas, Egil A.J. Fischer and Jan Hendrik Richardus
3. Mathematical Models of Human African Trypanosomiasis Epidemiology
   Kat S. Rock, Chris M. Stone, Ian M. Hastings, Matt J. Keeling, Steve J. Torr and Nakul Chitnis
4. Ecology, Evolution and Control of Chagas Disease: a Century of Neglected Modelling and a Promising Future
   Pierre Nouvellet, Zulma M. Cucunubá and Sébastien Gourbière
5. Mathematical Inference on Helminth Egg Counts in Stool and its Applications in Mass Drug Administration Programmes to Control Soil-transmitted Helminthiasis in Public Health
   Bruno Levecke, Roy M. Andersony, Dirk Berkvensz, Johannes Charlier, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Niko Speybroeckx, Jozef Vercruysse and Stefan Van Aelst
6. Modelling Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission and Control: Modelling Frameworks, Lessons Learned and Future Directions
   Wilma Stolk, Chris Stone and Sake de Vlas
7. Modelling the Effects of Mass Drug Administration on the Molecular Epidemiology of Schistosomes
   Poppy H.L. Lamberton, , Thomas Crellen, James A. Cotton and Joanne P. Webster
8. Economic and Financial Evaluation of Neglected Tropical Diseases
   Bruce Y. Lee, Sarah M. Bartsch and Katrin M. Gorham