Publications

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with the implementation of public health and social measures (PHSMs), have …

Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease that harms human health for a long time. TB epidemiological distribution …

Background The elevated incidence of tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in schools poses a significant challenge to prevention and control …

Background Delays in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) can increase the risk of transmission, thereby posing …

The mathematical method to which theoretical epidemiology belongs is one of the three major methodologies in epidemiology. It is of …

Objective This study aims to assess the feasibility of evaluating the COVID-19 epidemic trend through monitoring the positive …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with the implementation of public health and social measures (PHSMs), have …

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, a plethora of modeling studies related to COVID-19 have been released. While some models stand out …

The reproduction number serves as a fundamental metric in the examination of infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. …

Objective This study aims to estimate the transmissibility of norovirus outbreaks in schools by different transmission routes, and to …

Background Multiple human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated diseases have put a significant disease burden on the world. Therefore, we …

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a form of atypical pneumonia which took hundreds of lives when it swept the …

Background The incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) has decreased year by year in China after the expansion of vaccination, but there …

Objectives To evaluate the impact of early implementation of public health and social measures (PHSMs) on contact rates over time and …

Although studies have compared the relative severity of Omicron and Delta variants by assessing the relative risks, there are still …

Mpox has high transmissibility in MSM, which required minimize the risk of infection and exposure to high-risk populations. Community …

Since the epidemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), many governments have used reverse …

Background: The current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 has caused a serious disease burden worldwide. Vaccines are an …

The world has undergone five waves of COVID-19 pandemics, with a sixth wave likely to be led by China as policies in China begin to …

Objective: This study uses four COVID-19 outbreaks as examples to calculate and compare merits and demerits, as well as applicational …

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that can weaken the body’s cellular and humoral immunity and is …

In order to reduce individual variations and estimate the positive duration (Ct value < 30), B-spline basis functions (using the …

Backqround: There is a raising concern of a higher infectious Omicron BA.2 variant and the latest BA.4, BA.5 variantmade it more …

The results showed the mean value of median Rt value for MPX of 1.36 (SD: 0.21) and the median R0 value of 1.63 (IQR: 1.34–1.72) where …

Tsutsugamushi disease (TD) is an acute infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. This study aimed to analyze the …

Mathematical models have played an important role in the management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of …

Objectives This study aims to explore the interaction of different pathogens in Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) by using a …

This study elaborated the natural history parameters of Delta variant, explored the differences in detection cycle thresholds (Ct) …

Our findings imply that Omicron’s transmissibility is 1.5–1.8 times higher than that of Delta in terms of viral transmission. …

The annual incidence of SFTS increased year on year in Liaoning Province. Incidence of SFTS was affected by several meteorological …

随着成年人大规模接种新型冠状病毒（新冠病毒）疫苗，儿童和青少年群体由于较低疫苗覆盖率和较高接触度，逐渐成为新冠病毒感染的脆弱人群，有必要总结儿童和青少年群体新冠病毒感染特征、新冠病毒疫苗对于变异株的免疫效果。本文检索现有文献，对儿童和青少年新冠病毒感染的研究进展进行综 …

Objectives: Computing the basic reproduction number (R 0) in deterministic dynamical models is a hot topic and is frequently demanded …

This study aimed to explore whether the transmission routes of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) will be affected by …

Objective Mumps is a seasonal infectious disease, always occurring in winter and spring. In this study, we aim to analyze its …

Background: Hand-Foot-and-Mouth-Disease (HFMD) has been widely spread in Asia, and has result in a high disease burden for children in …

Background Reaching optimal vaccination rates is an essential public health strategy to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Background: In this study, we aimed to quantify the contribution of different transmission routes of the MiddleEast respiratory …

Introduction: Vaccination booster shots are completely necessary for controlling breakthrough infections of severe acute respiratory …

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease that is regionally distributed in Asia, with high …

Objectives:To understand the transmission mechanisms of the avian influenza A(H5N6) virus. Methods:This study explored the live poultry …

Background: To date, there is a lack of sufficient evidence on the type of clusters in which severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Background Developing countries exhibit a high disease burden from shigellosis. Owing to the different incidences in males and females, …

Background This study examines tuberculosis (TB) incidence among students in Jilin Province, China, focusing on spatial, temporal, and …

Background The novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, also called 2019-nCoV) causes different …

Background Developing countries exhibit a high disease burden from shigellosis. Owing to the different incidences in males and females, …

What is already known about this topic? Given the challenges presented by drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) and the rising …

The article aims to estimate and forecast the transmissibility of shigellosis and explore the association of meteorological factors …

Background: Recently, despite the steady decline in the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic globally, school TB outbreaks have been frequently …

Objective In China, the burden of shigellosis is unevenly distributed, notably across various ages and geographical areas. Shigellosis …

Background The significance of prevention and control of HFMD is particularly important in China. More than 2.4 million infections are …

Shigellosis is a heavy disease burden in China especially in children aged under 5 years. However, the age-related factors involved in …

Background: The disease burden of hepatitis E remains high. We used a new method (richness, diversity, evenness, and similarity …

Hepatitis C imposes a heavy burden on many countries, including China, where the number of reported cases and the incidence of …

Background: The transmission features and the feasibility of containing shigellosis remain unclear among apopulation-based study in …

Background Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a globalinfectious disease; particularly, it has ahigh disease burden in China. This …