Mobility and non-household environments: understanding dengue transmission patterns in urban contexts.

ABSTRACT: Households (HH) have been traditionally described as the main environments where people are at risk of dengue and other arbovirus infections. Mounting entomological evidence suggests a larger role for environments other than HH. Recently, an agent-based model (ABM) estimated that over half of infections occur in non-household (NH) environments such as workplaces, markets, and recreational sites. However, the influence of human and vector mobility and urban spatial configurations on the effects of NH on dengue transmission remains understudied. To address this gap, we expanded an ABM calibrated with field data from Kenya to examine movement of people and vectors under different spatial configurations of buildings. We assessed the number of people traveling between HH and NH and the distance

SUBMITTER: Pena-Garcia VH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11643204 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature