Individual level modeling of infectious disease transmission with reinfection dynamics: Application to Tuberculosis in Manitoba, Canada
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Abstract
Recent advancements in stochastic modeling of infectious disease transmission have increasingly incorporated spatial factors, enhancing the accuracy of disease spread predictions and public health interventions. For many infectious diseases, reinfection is a key factor that impacts disease dynamics, epidemic progression, prevalence, and control efforts, complicating management strategies. Accurately incorporating reinfection into disease modeling is essential for developing effective interventions. This study expands upon previously proposed Geographically Dependent Individual Level Models (GD-ILMs) of infectious diseases by integrating them within a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered-Susceptible (SEIRS) compartmental framework, termed GD-ILM SEIRS, to consider reinfection. A Monte Carlo Expectation Conditional Maximization algorithm was employed to estimate the parameters of the model. The GD-ILM SEIRS was applied to Tuberculosis data from Manitoba, Canada, covering the period from 2011 to 2018. It considers spatial dependencies, along with individual and regional risk factors influencing susceptibility to initial infection, reinfection, and infectivity. An analysis of Manitoba's health authority districts highlights specific risk factors related to susceptibility to initial infection, reinfection, and infectivity. Additionally, the fitted model enables calculation of infection probabilities at high-resolution geographic scales. The results allow for targeted interventions and optimized resource allocation by detecting high-risk areas and vulnerable populations to reduce transmission rates, prevent reinfection, and enhance health outcomes in Manitoba. Moreover, a simulation study across various grid configurations demonstrates the model's effectiveness in estimating parameters. This study highlights the need to integrate reinfection dynamics into infectious disease models to strengthen the impact of public health interventions and disease control strategies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".