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Periodicity of varicella-zoster virus in the presence of immune boosting and clinical reinfection with varicella

Overview of attention for article published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, April 2015
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Title
Periodicity of varicella-zoster virus in the presence of immune boosting and clinical reinfection with varicella
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Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12976-015-0002-5
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Igor A Korostil, James G Wood, David G Regan

Abstract

Clinical reinfection with varicella is normally ignored in mathematical transmission models as it is considered too rare to be important. We apply basic bifurcation analysis to a simple mathematical model of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) transmission incorporating reinfection. We demonstrate that under certain conditions this model can exhibit periodic behaviour as opposed to what is observed in VZV models that ignore the possibility of repeat varicella attacks. Periodicity can be induced by a combination of immune boosting and reinfection while the impact of zoster (shingles) recurrence on the onset of periodicity is negligible. Our results suggest that mathematical models of VZV may benefit from inclusion of repeat varicella.

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Unknown 22 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 27%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Professor 3 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 3 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 32%
Mathematics 3 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Other 4 18%
Unknown 4 18%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 October 2022.
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