STI-GMaS: an open-source environment for simulation of sexually-transmitted infections
Open Access
- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Systems Biology
- Vol. 8 (1), 66
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-8-66
Abstract
Sexually-transmitted pathogens often have severe reproductive health implications if treatment is delayed or absent, especially in females. The complex processes of disease progression, namely replication and ascension of the infection through the genital tract, span both extracellular and intracellular physiological scales, and in females can vary over the distinct phases of the menstrual cycle. The complexity of these processes, coupled with the common impossibility of obtaining comprehensive and sequential clinical data from individual human patients, makes mathematical and computational modelling valuable tools in developing our understanding of the infection, with a view to identifying new interventions. While many within-host models of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) are available in existing literature, these models are difficult to deploy in clinical/experimental settings since simulations often require complex computational approaches.Keywords
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