Rebecca Chisholm

Capturing Household Structure and Mobility within and between Remote Aboriginal Communities in Northern Australia Using Longitudinal Data: A Pilot Study

Jessie J Goldsmith, Patricia T Campbell, Juan Pablo Villanueva-Cabezas, Rebecca H Chisholm, Melita McKinnon, George G Gurruwiwi, Roslyn G Dhurrkay, Alfred M Dockery, Nicholas Geard, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Katherine B Gibney

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

UNLABELLED: Cultural practices and development level can influence a population's household structures and mixing patterns. Within..

Modelling the effect of within-host dynamics on the diversity of a multi-strain pathogen

Nefel Tellioglu, Nicholas Geard, Rebecca H Chisholm

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Multi-strain pathogens such as Group A Streptococcus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus cause millions of infect..

The efficacy of sampling strategies for estimating scabies prevalence

Nefel Tellioglu, Rebecca H Chisholm, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard, Patricia Therese Campbell

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES

BACKGROUND: Estimating community level scabies prevalence is crucial for targeting interventions to areas of greatest need. The Wo..

Modelling testing and response strategies for COVID-19 outbreaks in remote Australian Aboriginal communities

Ben B Hui, Damien Brown, Rebecca H Chisholm, Nicholas Geard, Jodie McVernon, David G Regan

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

BACKGROUND: Remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have potential to be severely impacted by COVID-19..

A model of population dynamics with complex household structure and mobility: implications for transmission and control of communicable diseases

Rebecca H Chisholm, Bradley Crammond, Yue Wu, Asha C Bowen, Patricia T Campbell, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020  |  PEERJ

Households are known to be high-risk locations for the transmission of communicable diseases. Numerous modelling studies have demo..

Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection

Rebecca H Chisholm, Nikki Sonenberg, Jake A Lacey, Malcolm I McDonald, Manisha Pandey, Mark R Davies, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) skin infections are caused by a diverse array of strain types and are highly prevalent in disadvantage..

The Role of Pleiotropy in the Evolutionary Maintenance of Positive Niche Construction

Rebecca H Chisholm, Brian D Connelly, Benjamin Kerr, Mark M Tanaka

Journal article  |  2018  |  AMERICAN NATURALIST

Organisms often modify their environments to their advantage through a process of niche construction. Environments that are improv..

Implications of asymptomatic carriers for infectious disease transmission and control

Rebecca H Chisholm, Patricia T Campbell, Yue Wu, Steven YC Tong, Jodie McVernon, Nicholas Geard

Journal article  |  2018  |  ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE

For infectious pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae, some hosts may carry the pathogen and transmi..

Why Is Evolution Important in Cancer and What Mathematics Should Be Used to Treat Cancer? Focus on Drug Resistance

Luís Almeida, Rebecca H Chisholm, Jean Clairambault, Tommaso Lorenzi, Alexander Lorz, Camille Pouchol, Emmanuel Trélat

Book Chapter  |  2018

Persistent infections in immunocompromised hosts are rarely sources of new pathogen variants

John-Sebastian Eden, Rebecca H Chisholm, Rowena A Bull, Peter A White, Edward C Holmes, Mark M Tanaka

Journal article  |  2017  |  VIRUS EVOLUTION

Many viruses, including human norovirus and influenza, cause self-limiting diseases of short duration. However, infection by the s..