Much-acclaimed, this book is now available in paperback. It provides an analytical framework for evaluating public health measures aimed at eradicating or controlling communicable diseases such as malaria, measles, river blindness, sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis, and AIDS. The authors are leaders in the field. Their distinctive contribution has been to show the practice and far-reaching power of mathematical modelling in epidemiology, fully set out here for the firsttime.
Introduction; A framework for discussing the population biology of infectious diseases; Part I:: Microparasites; Biology of host-microparasite associations; The basic model:: statics; Static aspects of eradication and control; The basic model:: dynamics; Dynamic aspects of eradication and control; Beyond the basic model:: empirical evidence of inhomogeneous mixing; Age-related transmission rates; Genetic heterogeneity; Social heterogeneity and sexually transmitted diseases; Spatial and other kinds of heterogeneity; Endemic infections in developing countries; Indirectly transmitted microparasites; Part II:: Macroparasites:: Biology of host-macroparasite associations; The basic model:: statics; The basic model:: dynamics; Acquired immunity; Heterogeneity within the human community; Indirectly transmitted helminths; Experimental epidemiology; Parasites, genetic variability, and drug resistance; The ecology and genetics of host-parasite associations; Appendices; References; Author index; Subject index;
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