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Dengue Fever
Research by P. Pongsumpun and colleagues in dengue fever provides new insights
September 30th, 2008
According to a study from France, "Dengue, similar to other arboviral diseases, exhibits complex spatiotemporal dynamics. Even at town or village level, individual-based spatially explicit models are required to correctly reproduce epidemic curves." "This makes modelling at the regional level (province, country or continent) very difficult and cumbersome. We propose here a first step to build a hierarchized model by constructing a simple analytical expression which reproduces the model output from macroscopic parameters describing each 'village'. It also turns out to be a good approximation of real urban epidermic outbreaks," wrote P. Pongsumpun and colleagues. ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-30)
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