no code implementations • 28 Mar 2024 • Christopher J. Banks, Aeron Sanchez, Vicki Stewart, Kate Bowen, Graham Smith, Rowland R. Kao
Diagnostic tests which can detect pre-clinical or sub-clinical infection, are one of the most powerful tools in our armoury of weapons to control infectious diseases.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2023 • Christopher J. Banks, Katherine Simpson, Nicholas Hanley, Rowland R. Kao
We use this asses the impact on wild deer populations in the newly created woodland areas and the emergent infectious disease risk arising from the proximity of new and existing wild deer populations and existing cattle holdings.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2022 • Christopher J. Banks, Ewan Colman, Anthony Wood, Thomas Doherty, Rowland R. Kao
In this paper we used an adapted version of an existing simulation model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Scotland to investigate the rise of the Omicron variant of concern, in order to evaluate plausible scenarios for transmission advantage and vaccine immune escape relative to the Delta variant.