no code implementations • 19 Jan 2023 • Daniela Florez, Alyssa Young, Kerlly J. Bernabe, James M. Hyman, Zhuolin Qu
Wolbachia infection in Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes can render mosquitoes less capable of spreading malaria.
1 code implementation • 23 Dec 2021 • Zhuolin Qu, Denis Patterson, Lauren Childs, Christina Edholm, Joan Ponce, Olivia Prosper, Lihong Zhao
Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2021 • Hayriye Gulbudak, Zhuolin Qu, Fabio Milner, Necibe Tuncer
We then use SA for these immuno-epidemiological models to investigate the impact of immunological parameters on population-level disease dynamics such as basic reproduction number, final size of the epidemic or the infectiousness at different phases of an outbreak.
no code implementations • 24 Aug 2021 • Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu, James Mac Hyman
Field trials and modeling studies have shown that the fraction of infection among the mosquitoes must exceed a threshold level for the infection to persist.
