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Article: Theoretical basis to measure the impact of short-lasting control of an infectious disease on the epidemic peak

TitleTheoretical basis to measure the impact of short-lasting control of an infectious disease on the epidemic peak
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Issue Date2011
PublisherBioMed Central Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tbiomed.com/home/
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Theoretical Biology And Medical Modelling, 2011, v. 8 n. 1 How to Cite?
AbstractBackground. While many pandemic preparedness plans have promoted disease control effort to lower and delay an epidemic peak, analytical methods for determining the required control effort and making statistical inferences have yet to be sought. As a first step to address this issue, we present a theoretical basis on which to assess the impact of an early intervention on the epidemic peak, employing a simple epidemic model. Methods. We focus on estimating the impact of an early control effort (e.g. unsuccessful containment), assuming that the transmission rate abruptly increases when control is discontinued. We provide analytical expressions for magnitude and time of the epidemic peak, employing approximate logistic and logarithmic-form solutions for the latter. Empirical influenza data (H1N1-2009) in Japan are analyzed to estimate the effect of the summer holiday period in lowering and delaying the peak in 2009. Results. Our model estimates that the epidemic peak of the 2009 pandemic was delayed for 21 days due to summer holiday. Decline in peak appears to be a nonlinear function of control-associated reduction in the reproduction number. Peak delay is shown to critically depend on the fraction of initially immune individuals. Conclusions. The proposed modeling approaches offer methodological avenues to assess empirical data and to objectively estimate required control effort to lower and delay an epidemic peak. Analytical findings support a critical need to conduct population-wide serological survey as a prior requirement for estimating the time of peak. © 2011 Omori and Nishiura; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/133671
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2020 Impact Factor: 2.432
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.303
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We would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier draft of this paper. HN is supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency PRESTO program. RO is financially supported by Research Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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dc.contributor.authorOmori, Ren_HK
dc.contributor.authorNishiura, Hen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T02:14:16Z-
dc.date.available2011-05-24T02:14:16Z-
dc.date.issued2011en_HK
dc.identifier.citationTheoretical Biology And Medical Modelling, 2011, v. 8 n. 1en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1742-4682en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/133671-
dc.description.abstractBackground. While many pandemic preparedness plans have promoted disease control effort to lower and delay an epidemic peak, analytical methods for determining the required control effort and making statistical inferences have yet to be sought. As a first step to address this issue, we present a theoretical basis on which to assess the impact of an early intervention on the epidemic peak, employing a simple epidemic model. Methods. We focus on estimating the impact of an early control effort (e.g. unsuccessful containment), assuming that the transmission rate abruptly increases when control is discontinued. We provide analytical expressions for magnitude and time of the epidemic peak, employing approximate logistic and logarithmic-form solutions for the latter. Empirical influenza data (H1N1-2009) in Japan are analyzed to estimate the effect of the summer holiday period in lowering and delaying the peak in 2009. Results. Our model estimates that the epidemic peak of the 2009 pandemic was delayed for 21 days due to summer holiday. Decline in peak appears to be a nonlinear function of control-associated reduction in the reproduction number. Peak delay is shown to critically depend on the fraction of initially immune individuals. Conclusions. The proposed modeling approaches offer methodological avenues to assess empirical data and to objectively estimate required control effort to lower and delay an epidemic peak. Analytical findings support a critical need to conduct population-wide serological survey as a prior requirement for estimating the time of peak. © 2011 Omori and Nishiura; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tbiomed.com/home/en_HK
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dc.rightsTheoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. Copyright © BioMed Central Ltd.en_US
dc.titleTheoretical basis to measure the impact of short-lasting control of an infectious disease on the epidemic peaken_HK
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