Statistical Aspects of BSE and vCJD: Models for Epidemics: 84 (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability) - Hardcover

Donnelly, C A; Ferguson, N M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849303869 ISBN 13: 9780849303869

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1999

Synopsis

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease," first diagnosed in late 1986, is transmitted through feed, indirect horizontal transmission, apparently maternally and possibly horizontally, through cattle-to-cattle contact or a contaminated environment. With no ante-mortem test yet developed, the only information available about BSE is from case surveillance and a limited number of experiments. Only through careful and rigorous modeling and analysis can reliable estimates of past infection and predictions of future cases be made. The modeling developed for BSE utilizes a range of techniques from statistics, ecology, and demography that is of interest both as a case study and for providing tools for other modeling projects. Statistical Aspects of BSE and vCJD: Models for Epidemics presents the general methodology required for thorough analysis and modeling of novel long incubation diseases with largely unknown etiology. BSE in British cattle is the primary example system presented, but application to other diseases, particularly the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (e.g., Scrapie in sheep and nvCJD in humans) are also highlighted. The book concentrates on presenting an exposition of the "state-of-the-art" rather than introductory material on the mathematical/statistical modeling of infectious diseases.

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Donnelly\, C A; Ferguson\, N M

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849303869
• ISBN 13: 9780849303869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242