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| Ben Adams |
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| University of Bath, UK |
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| Title | Man Bites Mosquito: Understanding the Contribution of Human Movement to Vector-borne Disease Dynamics |
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| Abstract | In metropolitan areas people travel frequently and extensively but often in highly structured commuting patterns. We investigate the role of this type of human movement in the epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens such as dengue. Analysis is based on a metapopulation model where mobile humans connect static mosquito subpopulations. We show that hubs and reservoirs of infection can be places people visit frequently but briefly. The relative importance of human and mosquito populations in maintaining the pathogen depends on the distribution of the mosquito population and the variability in human travel patterns. We conclude that successful public health intervention may require identifying areas with large mosquito populations together with a form of contact tracing that maps recent movements of infected people to pinpoint the mosquito subpopulation from which they acquired the infection and others to which they may have transmitted it. |
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| Coauthors | Durrell D Kapan, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
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| Location | Woodward 6 |
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