Martial L. Ndeffo Mbah; Jan Medlock; Lauren Ancel Meyers; Alison P. Galvani; Jeffrey P. Townsend(Elsevier, 2013-04-24)
Identification of the optimal vaccine allocation for the control of influenza requires consideration of uncertainty arising from numerous unpredictable factors, including viral evolution and diversity within the human po ...
Hall, Jean A.; Melendez, Lynda D.; Jewell, Dennis E.(Public Library of Science, 2013-01-14)
Because animal studies are labor intensive, predictive equations are used extensively for calculating metabolizable energy (ME) concentrations of dog and cat pet foods. The objective of this retrospective review of diges ...
Background: Clostridium difficile is the main cause of nosocomial infections including antibiotic associated diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis and toxic megacolon. During the course of Clostridium difficile infections ( ...
Giacani, Lorenzo; Chattopadhyay, Sujay; Centurion-Lara, Arturo; Jeffrey, BrendanM.; Le, Hoavan T.; Molini, Barbara J.; Lukehart, Sheila A.; Sokurenko, Evgeni V.; Rockey, Daniel D.(PLoS, 2012-06-12)
In the rabbit model of syphilis, infection phenotypes associated with the Nichols and Chicago strains of Treponema pallidum (T. pallidum), though similar, are not identical. Between these strains, significant differences ...
Mbah, Martial L. Ndeffo; Liu, Jingzhou; Bauch, Chris T.; Tekel, Yonas I.; Medlock, Jan; Meyers, Lauren Ancel; Galvani, Alison P.(International Society for Computational Biology, 2012-04)
Previous game-theoretic studies of vaccination behavior typically have often assumed that populations are homogeneously mixed and that individuals are fully rational. In reality, there is heterogeneity in the number of c ...