tailieunhanh - Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations

The epidemiology of infectious diseases is one of the great triumphs of applied ecology. In particular, the public health importance of parasites has lead to a large literature, exploring their impact on the population dynamics, population genetics and evolutionary biology of human populations. An important milestone was the Dahlem Conference on population biology of infectious diseases, held in 1981. The resulting book (Anderson and May 1982) lucidly summarised the contemporary state of parasite ecology and epidemiology. The meeting was also important in bringing together theoretical and empirical workers from a range of relevant disciplines. Their deliberations, in a series of group reports, set the scene for many developments in. | Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations EDITED BY B. T. Grenfell and A. p. Dobson PUBLICATIONS OF THE NEWTON INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS OF THE NEWTON INSTITUTE Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations Publications of the Newton Institute Edited by J. Wright Deputy Director Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences The Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Cambridge exists to stimulate research in all branches of the mathematical sciences including pure mathematics statistics applied mathematics theoretical physics theoretical computer science mathematical biology and economics. The four six-month long research programmes it runs each year bring together leading mathematical scientists from all over the world to exchange ideas through seminars teaching and informal interaction. Associated with the programmes are two types of publication. The first contains lecture courses aimed at making the latest developments accessible to a wider audience and providing an entry to the area. The second contains proceedings of workshops and conferences focusing on the most topical aspects of the .