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Leishmaniasis
Studies from Emory University have provided new information about leishmaniasis
June 16th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Diseases cycle as a response to endogenous and exogenous factors. For infectious diseases caused by vector-transmitted pathogens, the exogenous factors are commonly equated to climatic forces and the endogenous factors to the recruitment of new susceptible individuals." "Mathematical models that explicitly (parametrically) consider both types of factor are, however, very rare. An approach is presented to model the effects of endogenous and exogenous factors parametrically, using a time series for American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) from Costa Rica. The seasonality of the disease is modelled using a seasonal autoregressive...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-16)
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