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Krylova, O., Earn, D.J.D., 2013. "Effects of the infectious period distribution on predicted transitions in childhood disease dynamics" Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10, 20130098 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Kim, T.H., Russell,, M.L., Fonseca, K., Aoki, F., Horsman, G., Van Caeseele, P., Chokani, K., Voight, M., Babiuk, L., Moss, L., Webby, R., Earn, D.J.D., Singh, P., Howse, C., Loeb, M., 2012. "Characteristics of respiratory viral infections during influenza season in Canadian Hutterite Communities" Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, DOI:10.1111/irv.12021 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Davoudi, B., Miller, J.C., Meza, R., Meyers, L.A., Earn, D.J.D., Pourbohloul, B., 2012. "Early Real-Time Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number of Emerging Infectious Diseases" Physical Review X 2, 031005 | View Abstract | Request Reprint | Open Access
Holdsworth, A.M., Kevlahan, N. K.-R., Earn, D.J.D. , 2012. "Multifractal signatures of infectious diseases" Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9, 2167-2180 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., He, D., Loeb, M.B., Fonseca, K., Lee, B.E., Dushoff, J., 2012. "Effects of school closure on incidence of pandemic influenza in Alberta, Canada" Annals of Internal Medicine 156, 173-181 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Bos, K.I., Schuenemann, V.J., Golding, G.B., Burbano, H.A., Waglechner, N., Coombes, B.K., McPhee, J.B., DeWitte, S.N., Meyer, M., Schmedes, S., Wood, J., Earn, D.J.D., Herring, D.A., Bauer, P., Poinar, H.N., Krause, J., 2011. "A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death" Nature 478, 506-510 | View Abstract | Request Reprint | Open Access
Schuenemann, V., Bos, K., DeWitte, S., Schmedes, S., Jamieson, J., Mittnik, A., Forrest, S., Coombes, B.K., Wood, J.W., Earn, D.J.D., White, W., Krause, J., Poinar, H., 2011. "Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 10, E746-E752 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Ma, J., Dushoff, J., Earn, D.J.D., 2011. "Age-specific mortality risk from pandemic influenza" Journal of Theoretical Biology 288, 29-34 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
McCluskey, C.C., Earn, D.J.D., 2011. "Attractivity of coherent manifolds in metapopulation models" Journal of Mathematical Biology 62, 509-541 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Eftimie, R., Dushoff, J., Bridle, B., Bramson, J.L., Earn, D.J.D., 2011. "Multi-stability and multi-instability phenomena in a mathematical model of tumor-immune-virus interactions" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 73, 2932-2961 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
He, D., Dushoff, J., Day, T., Ma, J., Earn, D.J.D., 2011. "Mechanistic modelling of the three waves of the 1918 influenza pandemic " Theoretical Ecology 4, 283-288 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Tuite, A.R., Tien, J., Eisenberg, M., Earn, D.J.D., Ma, J., Fisman, D.N., 2011. "Cholera Epidemic in Haiti, 2010: Using a Transmission Model to Explain Spatial Spread of Disease and Identify Optimal Control Interventions " Annals of Internal Medicine 154, 593-601 | View Abstract | Request Reprint | Open Access
Eftimie, R., Bramson, J.L., Earn, D.J.D., 2011. "Interactions between the immune system and cancer: a brief review of non-spatial mathematical models" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 73, 2-32 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Tien, J.H., Poinar, H.N., Fisman, D.N., Earn, D.J.D., 2011. "Herald waves of cholera in 19th century London" Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8, 756-760 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Hooker, G., Ellner, S.P., De Vargas Roditi, L., Earn, D.J.D, 2011. "Parameterizing state-space models for infectious disease dynamics by generalized profiling: measles in Ontario" Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8, 961-974 | View Abstract | Request Reprint | Open Access
Loeb, M., Russell, M.L., Earn, D.J.D., 2010. "Influenza Vaccination of Children and Infection Rates in the Community -- Reply" JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association 303, 2356 | Request Reprint
Eftimie, R., Bramson, J.L., Earn, D.J.D., 2010. "Modeling anti-tumor Th1 and Th2 immunity in the rejection of melanoma" Journal of Theoretical Biology 265, 467-480 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Loeb, M., Earn, D.J.D., Smieja, M., Webby, R., 2010. "Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Risk for Nurses after Trivalent Vaccination" Emerging Infectious Diseases 16, 719-720 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Tien, J.H., Earn, D.J.D., 2010. "Multiple transmission pathways and disease dynamics in a waterborne pathogen model" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 72, 1506-1533 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Loeb, M., Smieja, M., Earn, D.J.D., 2010. "Surgical Masks vs N95 Respirators for Preventing Influenza - Reply" JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association 303, 938-939 | Request Reprint
Loeb, M., Russell, M.L., Moss, L., Fonseca, K., Fox, J., Earn, D.J.D., Aoki,F., Horsman, G., Van Caeseele, P., Chokani, K., Vooght, M., Babiuk, L., Webby, R., Walter, S.D., 2010. "Effect of Influenza Vaccination of Children on Infection Rates in Hutterite Communities: A Randomized Trial" JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association 303, 943-950 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Young, J.A.M., Marentette, J.R., Gross, C., McDonald, J.I., Verma, A., Marsh-Rollo, S.E., Macdonald, P.D.M., Earn, D.J.D., Balshine, S., 2010. "Demography and substrate affinity of the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in Hamilton Harbour" Journal of Great Lakes Research 36, 115-122 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Wagner, B.G., Earn, D.J.D., 2010. "Population dynamics of live-attenuated virus vaccines " Theoretical Population Biology 77, 79-94 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Goldstein, E., Dushoff, J., Ma, J., Plotkin, J., Earn, D.J.D., Lipsitch, M., 2009. "Reconstructing influenza incidence by deconvolution of daily mortality time series" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 106, 21825-21829 | View Abstract | Request Reprint | Open Access
Loeb, M., Dafoe, N., Mahony, J., John, M., Sarabia, A., Glavin, V., Webby, R., Smieja, M., Earn, D.J.D., Chong, S., Webb, A,. Walter, S.D., 2009. "Surgical Mask vs N95 Respirator for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Workers: a Randomized Trial " JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association 302, 1865-1871 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Pourbohloul, B., Ahued, A., Davoudi, B., Meza, R., Meyers, L.A., Skowronski, D.M., Villaseñor, I., Galván, F., Cravioto, P., Earn, D.J.D., Dushoff, J., Fisman, D., Edmunds, W.J., Hupert, N., Scarpino, S.V., Trujillo, J., Lutzow, M., Morales, J., Contreras, A., Chávez, C., Patrick, D.M., Brunham, R.C., 2009. "Initial human transmission dynamics of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in North America" Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 3, 215-222 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 2009. "Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases" In Mathematical Biology, edited by M.A. Lewis, M.A.J. Chaplain, J.P. Keener, P.K. Maini, IAS/Park City Mathematics Series Volume 14 , (American Mathematical Society), pp. 151-186 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Wagner, B.G., Earn, D.J.D., 2008. "Circulating vaccine derived polio viruses and their impact on global polio eradication" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 70, 253-280 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 2008. "A light introduction to modelling recurrent epidemics" In Lecture Notes in Mathematical Epidemiology, edited by F. Brauer, P. van den Driessche, J. Wu, (Springer), pp. 3-18 | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 2007. "Comment on `Parameter estimation for differential equations: A generalized smoothing approach' by James O. Ramsay, Giles Hooker, David Campbell and Jiguo Cao" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 69, 779-780 | Request Reprint
Dushoff, J., Plotkin, J.B., Viboud, C., Simonsen, L., Miller, M., Loeb, M., Earn, D.J.D., 2007. "Vaccinating to protect a vulnerable subpopulation" PLoS Medicine 4, 921-927 | View Abstract | Request Reprint | Open Access
He, D., Earn, D.J.D., 2007. "Epidemiological effects of seasonal oscillations in birth rates" Theoretical Population Biology 72, 274-291 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Ma, J., Earn, D.J.D., 2006. "Generality of the final size formula for an epidemic of a newly invading infectious disease" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 68, 679-702 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Levin, S.A., 2006. "Global asymptotic coherence in discrete dynamical systems" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103, 3968-3971 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Dushoff, J., Plotkin, J.B., Viboud, C., Earn, D.J.D., Simonsen, L., 2006. "Mortality due to influenza in the United States - An annualized regression approach using mulitple-cause mortality data" American Journal of Epidemiology 163, 181-187 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Dushoff, J., Plotkin, J.B., Levin, S., Earn, D.J.D., 2004. "Dynamical resonance can account for seasonality of influenza epidemics" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101, 16915-16916 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Bauch, C.T., Earn, D.J.D., 2004. "Vaccination and the theory of games" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101, 13391-13394 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 2004. "Mathematical Modelling of Recurrent Epidemics" Pi in the Sky 8, 14-17 | Request Reprint
Bauch, C.T., Galvani, A.P., Earn, D.J.D., 2003. "Group interest versus self-interest in smallpox vaccination policy." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 100, 10564-10567 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Bauch, C.T., Earn, D.J.D., 2003. "Transients and attractors in epidemics." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 270, 1573-1578 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Bauch, C., Earn, D.J.D., 2003. "Interepidemic Intervals in Forced and Unforced SEIR Models" Fields Institute Communications 36, 33-44 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D. J. D., Dushoff, J., Levin, S.A., 2002. "Ecology and evolution of the flu." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17, 334-340 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Levin, S.A., Rohani, P., 2000. "Coherence and conservation." Science 290, 1360-1364 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Rohani, P., Bolker, B.M., Grenfell, B.T., 2000. "A simple model for complex dynamical transitions in epidemics." Science 287, 667-670 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Rohani, P., Earn, D.J.D., Grenfell, B.T., 2000. "Pertussis transmission in England and Wales - Reply." The Lancet 355, 1553-1554 | Request Reprint
Rohani, P., Earn, D.J.D., Grenfell, B.T., 2000. "Impact of immunisation on pertussis transmission in England and Wales." The Lancet 355, 285-286 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Rohani, P., Earn, D.J.D., Grenfell, B.T., 1999. "Opposite patterns of synchrony in sympatric disease metapopulations." Science 286, 968-971 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Summers, K., Earn, D.J.D., 1999. "The cost of polygyny and the evolution of female care in poison frogs." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66, 515-538 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Rohani, P., 1999. "Complex dynamics in ecology." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14, 43-44 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Johnstone, R.A., Earn, D.J.D., 1999. "Imperfect female choice and male mating skew on leks of different sizes." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 45, 277-281 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Rohani, P., Grenfell, B.T., 1998. "Persistence, chaos and synchrony in ecology and epidemiology." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265, 7-10 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Rohani, P., Earn, D.J.D., Finkenstadt, B., Grenfell, B.T., 1998. "Population dynamic interference among childhood diseases." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265, 2033-2041 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Balshine-Earn, S., Earn, D.J.D., 1998. "On the evolutionary pathway of parental care in mouthbrooding cichlid fishes." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 265, 2217-2222 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Balshine-Earn, S., Earn, D.J.D., 1997. "An evolutionary model of parental care in St. Peter's fish." Journal of Theoretical Biology 184, 423-431 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Johnstone, R.A., 1997. "A systematic error in tests of ideal free theory." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 264, 1671-1675 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Rohani, P., Earn, D.J.D., 1997. "Chaos in a cup of flour." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12, 171 | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Lynden-Bell, D., 1996. "Cooperation of orbital streams in disc galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 278, 395-405 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 1996. "Potential-density basis sets for three-dimensional disks." In Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way, edited by L. Blitz and P. Teuben, Proceedings of IAU Symposium  169, (Kluwer: Dordrecht), pp. 509-510 | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 1996. "Potential-density basis sets for galactic disks." The Astrophysical Journal 465, 91-95 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Lichtenberg, A.J., 1996. "Arnold diffusion in symplectic lattice maps." Fields Institute Communications 10, 87-91 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Robijn, F.H.A., Earn, D.J.D., 1996. "Potential-density basis sets in axisymmetric coordinates." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 282, 1129-1142 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 1996. "The publications and citations of Donald Lynden-Bell." In Gravitational Dynamics, the 36th Herstmonceux conference, in honour of the 60th birthday of Donald Lynden-Bell, edited by O. Lahav, E. Terlevich and R.J. Terlevich, (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK), pp. 249-260 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Sellwood, J.A., 1995. "The optimal N-body method for stability studies of galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal 451, 533-541 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., 1994. "Symplectic integration without roundoff error." In Ergodic Concepts in Stellar Dynamics, edited by V.G. Gurzadyan and D. Pfenniger, Lecture Notes in Physics  430, (Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg), pp. 122-130 | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Tremaine, S., 1992. "Exact numerical studies of Hamiltonian Maps: iterating without roundoff error." Physica D 56, 1-22 | View Abstract | Request Reprint
Earn, D.J.D., Tremaine, S., 1991. "Exact solutions for Hamiltonian Systems using integer arithmetic." In Dynamics of Disk Galaxies, edited by B. Sundelius, (Göteborg University: Göteborg, Sweden), pp. 137-141 | Request Reprint

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