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Infectious diseases are spread through populations by various means, such as contact between individuals, or by spread by insects such as mosquitoes in diseases like malaria or dengue fever. The type of spread is an important factor influencing the choice of best control strategy to use in different situations, be it vaccination or control of populations which act as a reservoir for the disease. This honours project will look at various measures spread of disease in structured populations, one of which is the basic reproduction number, and using them to obtain suitable recommendation for the best control strategies. Some different infectious diseases will be used to compare these measures, such as tuberculosis and dengue fever. Systems of differential equations are used to construct models for which simulations can be run and the various control measures can be constructed from the differential equations by forming what is known as a next-generation matrix.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Glenn Fulford
