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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}
}