Spatial heterogeneity, host movement and mosquito-borne disease transmission.

ABSTRACT: Mosquito-borne diseases are a global health priority disproportionately affecting low-income populations in tropical and sub-tropical countries. These pathogens live in mosquitoes and hosts that interact in spatially heterogeneous environments where hosts move between regions of varying transmission intensity. Although there is increasing interest in the implications of spatial processes for mosquito-borne disease dynamics, most of our understanding derives from models that assume spatially homogeneous transmission. Spatial variation in contact rates can influence transmission and the risk of epidemics, yet the interaction between spatial heterogeneity and movement of hosts remains relatively unexplored. Here we explore, analytically and through numerical simulations, how human mobility co

SUBMITTER: Acevedo MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4452543 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature