With the aim of understanding epidemic spreading in a general multiplex network and designing optimal immunization strategies, a mathematical model based on multiple degree is built to analyze the threshold condition for epidemic outbreak.
The Meningitis Vaccine Project, a partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH, coordinated the development, testing, licensure, and introduction of this vaccine with the aim of eliminating epidemic meningitis attributable to MenA [ 1– 4].
Extensive studies have been undertaken on HIV-1 subtype B sequences with the aim of understanding local epidemic patterns.
An epidemic model which describes vector-borne plant diseases is proposed with the aim to investigate the effect of insect vectors on the spread of plant diseases.
Molecular investigations were conducted with the aim to analyze the genetic variability of C diphtheriae during the post-epidemic period.
1) Better understanding, targeting and implementation of active case finding interventions with the aim of reaching out to the most affected in order to maximise the impact on the TB epidemic.
The obesity epidemic can be interpreted as a social construction by government health agencies, academic obesity scientists and researchers, obesity associations, health care professionals with the aim of creating a market, and industry [ 131, 147].
To compare the prevalence of dengue maculopathy among patients hospitalized for dengue fever during a 2007 epidemic with its prevalence during the 2005 epidemic.
The aim was to allow the rapid detection of an epidemic and to identify circulating arboviruses.
Stover et al.[ 9] describe, among other changes, how the AIM module now includes a procedure whereby, in large epidemics, the total death rate is made consistent with published projections through modification of background mortality rates where necessary.
