Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases: an ongoing challenge
Populations and Evolution
2025-08-06 v2
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present an, admittedly somewhat subjective, bird's eye view of the mathematical theory concerning the spread of an infectious disease in a susceptible host population with static structure, culminating in a future-oriented description of various modelling challenges.
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@article{arxiv.2505.01621,
title = {Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases: an ongoing challenge},
author = {Odo Diekmann and Hisashi Inaba and Horst R. Thieme},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.01621},
year = {2025}
}