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ArticleJournal of biological dynamics2013

Numerical simulation of a susceptible-exposed-infectious space-continuous model for the spread of rabies in raccoons across a realistic landscape.

Joshua P Keller, Luca Gerardo-Giorda, Alessandro Veneziani

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Article in Journal of biological dynamics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Assessing the Spatio-temporal Spread of COVID-19 via Compartmental Models with Diffusion in Italy, USA, and Brazil.Archives of computational methods in engineering : state of the art reviews · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Joshua P Kellera Department of Biostatistics , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA.
Luca Gerardo-Giorda
Alessandro Veneziani

Funding

Biostatistics, Epidemiologic & Bioinformatic Training in Environmental HealthT32ES015459 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI June T. Spector · 2009 to 2026
$10.6M
SPATIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS OF RABIESR01AI047498 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI REAL, LESLIE A. · 1999 to 2014
$3.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01-AI047498NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES015459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce a numerical model for the spread of a lethal infectious disease in wildlife. The reference model is a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious system where the spatial component of the dynamics is modelled by a diffusion process. The goal is to develop a model to be used for real geographical scenarios, so we do not rely upon simplifying assumptions on the shape of the region of interest. For this reason, space discretization is carried out with the finite element method on an unstructured triangulation. A diffusion term is designed to take into account landscape heterogeneities such as mountains and waterways. Numerical simulations are carried out for rabies epidemics among raccoons in New York state. A qualitative comparison of numerical results to available data from real-world epidemics is discussed.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsBayes TheoremComputer SimulationEpidemicsFinite Element AnalysisGeographyModels, TheoreticalNew YorkRabiesRaccoonsReproducibility of ResultsSoftwareSpace-Time ClusteringTime Factors

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PMID23157180
PMCPMC3957468

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