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SUMMARY:Latency and reinfection in Tuberculosis - Dr Ellen Brooks Pollock
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CONTACT:Olivier Restif
DESCRIPTION:Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease that is resp
 onsible for approximately 2 million deaths worldwide each year. A hallmark
  of TB infection is the long term asymptomatic latent period which can pro
 gress to active disease years or decades after exposure. Accordingly\, it 
 can be challenging to identify the source of infection and interrupt trans
 mission. I plan to talk about capturing latency and reinfection in mathema
 tical models of TB transmission\, including parameter estimation and impli
 cations of underlying assumptions. \n
LOCATION:MR4\,  Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Camb
 ridge
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