Background: Short-term forecasts of infectious disease burden can contribute to situational awareness and aid capacity planning. Based on best practice in other fields and recent insights in infectious disease epidemiology, ...

Monitoring transmission is a prerequisite for containing COVID-19. We report on effective potential growth (EPG) as a novel measure for the early identification of local outbreaks based on primary care electronic medical ...

Most studies, aimed at determining the incidence and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in children and teenagers, have been developed in school settings. Our study conducted surveillance and inferred attack rates focusing on the ...

La simulació discreta és una eina Útil per estudiar i entendre sistemes cornplexos. S'ha elaborat un programa de simulació discreta per l'estudi de sisternes ecologics. S'ha desenvolupat amb profunditat una versió del ...

Variability is a hallmark of microbial systems. On the one hand, microbes are subject to environmental heterogeneity and undergo changeable conditions in their immediate surroundings. On the other hand, microbial populations ...

The temporo-spatial relationship between the three organs (lung, spleen and lymph node) involved during the initial stages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection has been poorly studied. As such, we performed an experimental ...

Transmission rates among children and adults in summer-school settings, implementing strict preventive measures, were low in comparison with community transmission rates. These results support current policies of keeping ...