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RICERCHE DI MATEMATICA
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 7-25Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s11587-017-0348-6
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Infectious diseases; Seasonality; Vaccine; Behavior; Public health
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- Italian National Group for the Mathematical Physics (GNFM) of the National Institute for Advanced Mathematics (INdAM)
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We provide a review of some key literature results on the influence of seasonality and other time heterogeneities of contact rates, and other parameters, such as vaccination rates, on the spread of infectious diseases. This is a classical topic where highly theoretical methodologies have provided new insight on the seemingly random behavior observed in epidemic time-series. We follow the line of providing a highly personal non-systematic review of this topic, mainly based on the history of mathematical epidemiology and on the impact of reviewed articles. Our aim is to stress some issues of increasing interest, such as the public health implications of the biomathematical literature and the impact of seasonality on epidemic extinction or elimination.
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