2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on symbiosis between humanity and infectious diseases
| Project/Area Number |
23659354
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Public health/Health science
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| Research Institution | Nagasaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAMOTO Taro 長崎大学, 熱帯医学研究所, 教授 (70304970)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
HASHIZUME Masahiro 長崎大学, 熱帯医学研究所, 教授 (30448500)
ZHANG Zhuo 長崎大学, 熱帯医学研究所, 客員研究員 (20568927)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 疫学 / 感染症 / 地球システム / 開発途上国 / 生態地理学 / 数理シミュレーション |
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| Research Abstract |
This study focuses on adaptation process of virus as a pathogen and humanity as a host. The opportunity for a new virus to emerge into a human society, recently, increases because of the growth of global population, urbanization, the loss of rain forest and destruction of ecosystem resulted by them. However, from ecological view point, the virus infections have appeared and disappeared as a human society changes over time. We examined such a situation by using epidemiological simulation. As a result, we could obtain a hypothesis that humanity should co-live with viruses, timing them as to be a low virulent one. But in the other hand, we realized that there seems a challenge ahead for us human to address this issue.
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