The Population Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Theory and ApplicationsRoy M. Anderson Springer US, 1982 - 368 pages Since the beginning of this century there has been a growing interest in the study of the epidemiology and population dynamics of infectious disease agents. Mathematical and statistical methods have played an important role in the development of this field and a large, and sophisticated, literature exists which is concerned with the theory of epidemiological processes in popu lations and the dynamics of epidemie and endemie disease phenomena. Much ofthis literature is, however, rather formal and abstract in character, and the field has tended to become rather detached from its empirical base. Relatively little of the literature, for example, deals with the practical issues which are of major concern to public health workers. Encouragingly, in recent years there are signs of an increased awareness amongst theoreticians of the need to confront predictions with observed epidemiological trends, and to pay elose attention to the biological details of the interaction between host and disease agent. This trend has in part been stimulated by the early work of Ross and Macdonald, on the transmission dynamics of tropical parasitic infections, but a further impetus has been the recent advances made by ecologists in blending theory and observation in the study of plant and animal populations. |
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age-prevalence curves Anderson assumed average number b₁ bacterial basic reproductive rate behaviour biology Bulletin of World cattle chemotherapy Cvjetanović cycle death rate density-dependent Dietz diminuta disease distribution dynamics effects endemic England and Wales epidemic epidemiological equilibrium eradication estimates eye lesions factors faeces Fasciola hepatica fascioliasis fecundity Figure fluke force of infection fox density fox population function habitat helminth hookworm host population human host immunity incidence individuals infected snails infective larvae intensity of infection intermediate host Journal larvae liver Lymnaea truncatula Macdonald malaria mathematical measles Medicine and Hygiene microfilarial density miracidia miracidium molluscicide mortality mosquito negative binomial number of infective observed Ollerenshaw Onchocerciasis parasite population Parasitology period predicted prevalence of eye prevalence of infection proportion rabies regions relationship Ross schistosomes schistosomiasis seasonal sheep snail snail population studies susceptible Table tapeworm temperature transmission Tropical Medicine uninfected vaccination Veterinary World Health Organization