Comparative Analysis of Dengue and Zika Outbreaks Reveals Differences by Setting and Virus.

ABSTRACT: The pacific islands of Micronesia have experienced several outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases over the past decade. In outbreaks on small islands, the susceptible population is usually well defined, and there is no co-circulation of pathogens. Because of this, analysing such outbreaks can be useful for understanding the transmission dynamics of the pathogens involved, and particularly so for yet understudied pathogens such as Zika virus. Here, we compared three outbreaks of dengue and Zika virus in two different island settings in Micronesia, the Yap Main Islands and Fais, using a mathematical model of transmission dynamics and making full use of commonalities in disease and setting between the outbreaks. We found that the estimated reproduction numbers for Zika and dengue were similar w

SUBMITTER: Funk S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5142772 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature