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Lice Infestation
Reports outline lice infestation study findings from University College
June 17th, 2008
"We investigate the dynamics of head lice infections in schools, by consideringa model for endemic infection based on a stochastic SIS (susceptible-infected-susceptible) epidemic model, with the addition of an external source of infection. We deduce a range of properties of our model, including the length of a single outbreak of infection," scientists writing in the Journal of Mathematical Biology report. "We use the stationary distribution of the number of infected individuals, in conjunction with data from a recent study carried out in Welsh schools on the prevalence of head lice infections, and employ maximum likelihood methods to obtain estimates of the model...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-17)
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