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| Romulus BrebanSummaryAffiliation: Institut Pasteur Country: France Publications
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A general multi-strain model with environmental transmission: invasion conditions for the disease-free and endemic statesRomulus Breban
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
J Theor Biol 264:729-36. 2010..However, the endemic state of the first strain is neutrally stable to invasion by the second strain. Thus, our results suggest that environmental transmission makes the endemic state less resistant to invasion...- Towards realistic estimates of HCV incidence in EgyptR Breban
Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Viral Hepat 20:294-6. 2013..We propose an alternate approach to estimating incidence based on analysing cohort data; we find that the number of annual new infections is <150 000... - Role of environmental persistence in pathogen transmission: a mathematical modeling approachRomulus Breban
Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris, France
J Math Biol 66:535-46. 2013..While environmental transmission is typically chosen over direct transmission in modeling cholera, this is not the case for influenza... 
Health newscasts for increasing influenza vaccination coverage: an inductive reasoning game approachRomulus Breban
Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
PLoS ONE 6:e28300. 2011..We show that broadcasting both the incidence and the vaccination coverage could yield either better or worse vaccination coverage than broadcasting each piece of information on its own...- A universal long-term flu vaccine may not prevent severe epidemicsRaffaele Vardavas
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA
BMC Res Notes 3:92. 2010..However, due to complacency behavior, it remains unclear whether the introduction of such vaccines would maintain high and stable levels of vaccination coverage year after year... - Quantifying the treatment efficacy of reverse transcriptase inhibitors: new analyses of clinical data based on within-host modelingRomulus Breban
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
BMC Public Health 9:S11. 2009..Current measures of the clinical efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the treatment of HIV include the change in HIV RNA in the plasma and the gain in CD4 cells... 
Mean-field analysis of an inductive reasoning game: application to influenza vaccinationRomulus Breban
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1555, USA
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 76:031127. 2007..Our analysis provides a practical method for identifying how many years of free vaccination should be provided in order to successfully ameliorate influenza epidemics...- Can influenza epidemics be prevented by voluntary vaccination?Raffaele Vardavas
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 3:e85. 2007..Finally, we discuss the implication of our results for controlling pandemics... - The role of environmental transmission in recurrent avian influenza epidemicsRomulus Breban
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000346. 2009..Third, very low levels of environmental transmission (i.e., few cases per year) are sufficient for avian influenza to persist in populations where it would otherwise vanish... - Is there any evidence that syphilis epidemics cycle?Romulus Breban
Department of Psychiatry, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 8:577-81. 2008..We explain the possible reasons for the previous proposal that syphilis epidemics cycle. Our findings imply that it is quite possible that the CDC could be successful in eliminating syphilis within the next few decades... - Role of parametric resonance in virological failure during HIV treatment interruption therapyRomulus Breban
Department of Biomathematics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Lancet 367:1285-9. 2006..Hence, our analyses show that no universal regimen with periodic interruptions will be effective for all patients... - Environmental transmission of low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses and its implications for pathogen invasionPejman Rohani
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:10365-9. 2009.... - Linking population-level models with growing networks: a class of epidemic modelsRomulus Breban
Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555, USA
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 72:046110. 2005..We discuss the computational advantages that our growing network model has over the CMJ branching process...