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  • Epidemiology and Public Health
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Complex Systems Science

Background:

  • Multiscale modeling of infectious diseases requires a theoretical foundation to accurately describe complex systems.
  • Current approaches may lack a unified theory to explain inter-relationships between different organizational scales.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel relativistic theory for multiscale modeling of infectious disease systems.
  • To establish a theoretical basis for understanding disease dynamics across multiple scales.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the replication-transmission relativity theory, extending principles from physics.
  • Application of the theory to a multiscale model of hookworm infection at the host level.

Main Results:

  • The theory posits that disease dynamics are determined by microscale-macroscale interactions, not absolute scales.
  • A pathogen replication-transmission multiscale cycle is established through reciprocal influences between scales.
  • Two types of reciprocal influence between micro and macro scales are identified.

Conclusions:

  • The replication-transmission relativity theory offers a scientific basis for systems-level descriptions of infectious diseases.
  • Multiscale modeling in infectious disease systems can be advanced by adopting this relativistic framework.
  • The theory's validity is supported by its application to a hookworm infection model.