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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Computational Science

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  • Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission often overlook crucial within-host dynamics.
  • Within-host processes like pathogen replication and immune response significantly impact individual disease progression, evolution, and population-level transmission.
  • Existing models struggle to couple within- and between-host dynamics realistically and efficiently.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, adaptable, and broadly applicable computational method for modeling both within- and between-host infectious disease dynamics.
  • To create a model that realistically couples dynamics across scales, offering computational efficiency.
  • To investigate how simplifying assumptions in epidemiological models affect disease dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • A novel method coupling deterministic within-host dynamics of individuals with stochastic population-level host state variables.
  • Utilizes fast numerical methods for both individual and population scales.
  • Validates the approach against full stochastic individual-based simulations.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method accurately captures transient within-host dynamics and stochastic transmission.
  • It demonstrates close agreement with full stochastic individual-based simulations.
  • Analysis reveals how common simplifying assumptions can fundamentally alter epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics.

Conclusions:

  • The novel computational approach provides a realistic and efficient way to model infectious disease transmission across scales.
  • This method is particularly valuable for scenarios where within-host dynamics are not rapid or for long-term pathogen evolution tracking.
  • The study highlights the importance of incorporating detailed within-host processes for accurate disease modeling.